Freeman Dyson
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All Listed Quotations by 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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“Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.” -Freeman Dyson
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“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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“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
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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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“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
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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
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“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
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“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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“I have the freedom to do what I want… bright people to talk to every day.” -Freeman Dyson
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“It’s better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.” -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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“We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.” -Freeman…
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“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming!”
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