Freeman Dyson
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by 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!”