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Dyson: the glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove...‏


Freeman Dyson's last sentences on an article he wrote 
in The New York Review of Books, April 5, 2012.

The fringe of physics is not a sharp boundary 
with truth on one side and fantasy on the other. 
All of science is uncertain and subject to revision. 
The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. 

The fringe is the unexplored territory 
where truth and fantasy are not yet disentangled. 

Hermann Weyl, who was one of the main architects 
of the relativity and quantum revolutions, said to me once, 
“I always try to combine the true with the beautiful, 
but when I have to choose one or the other, 
I usually choose the beautiful.” 

Following Weyl’s good example, 
our string cosmologists are making the same choice...

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