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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Freeman Dyson
Progress, Theory, Built
"The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

Freeman Dyson
Progress, Done, Damage
Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.200, Universities Press

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

Freeman Dyson
Progress, Facts, Imagine
"Physics Legend Freeman Dyson On The One Thing We Just Don’t Get About Science" by David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2014.

It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

Freeman Dyson
Years, Progress, India
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

Freeman Dyson
Optimistic, Progress
Source: www.businessinsider.com

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

Freeman Dyson
Thinking, People, Progress
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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