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Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
American Physicist
Born: Dec 15, 1923
Important Life People Science World You
Related authors: Barry Barish Brian Greene Edward Teller J. Robert Oppenheimer Lawrence M. Krauss Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Richard P. Feynman
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? Freeman Dyson
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Freeman Dyson
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Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson
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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. Freeman Dyson
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. Freeman Dyson
Life Fear Better Live Than Get Mugged
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. Freeman Dyson
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Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. Freeman Dyson
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Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. Freeman Dyson
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. Freeman Dyson
Life Simple Had Most Effects Human Which Human Life Technologies Profound
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. Freeman Dyson
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The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers. Freeman Dyson
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. Freeman Dyson
Government Needs Technology World Power Fusion Small Except Could Price Leading Nobody Make Source Existing Huge Afford Where Centralized Flexible Electricity Compact Program Needed
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. Freeman Dyson
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The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. Freeman Dyson
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It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe. Freeman Dyson
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Freeman Dyson
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Freeman Dyson
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. Freeman Dyson
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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. Freeman Dyson
Needs Technology Generation Appropriate Find Individuals Lucky Each Each Generation
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. Freeman Dyson
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. Freeman Dyson
Day Freedom Every Day People Every Talk Want Bright
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas. Freeman Dyson
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