I hope that the notion of a final statement of the laws of physics will prove as illusory as the notion of a formal decision process for all mathematics. If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist

Infinite in All Directions, Part 1, ch. 3 “Manchester and Athens” (1988)
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Based on his Gifford Lectures, Aberdeen, Scotland (Apr-Nov 1985).