Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
Freeman DysonMathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.
Freeman DysonClimate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
Freeman Dyson