Freeman Dyson Quotes


The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. Freeman Dyson Effects 83
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. Freeman Dyson Technology 80
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 design 79
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Freeman Dyson Science 74
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 Wisdom 74
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. Freeman Dyson Tools 70
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. Freeman Dyson Business 66
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. Freeman Dyson Technology 63
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Freeman Dyson Toys 59
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 Science 54
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. Freeman Dyson Intelligence 50
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. Freeman Dyson Science 48
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Freeman Dyson Science 44
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 Science 41
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. Freeman Dyson Mistake 39
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson Humor 38
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Freeman Dyson Uncategorized 37
I have the freedom to do what I want… bright people to talk to every day. Freeman Dyson Uncategorized 34
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. Freeman Dyson Life 32
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 Uncategorized 29
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. Freeman Dyson Uncategorized 28
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. Freeman Dyson Uncategorized 27
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 Future 26
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. Freeman Dyson Uncategorized 26
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 Uncategorized 25

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