“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
