Without discipline there can be no greatness. Without diversity there can be no freedom. Greatness for the enterprise, freedom for the individual — these are the two themes, contrasting but not incompatible, that make up the history of science and the history of religion.

— Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions (1988)

From chapter 1, 'In Praise of Diversity', of his 1988 book.

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