Freeman Dyson Quotes

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• Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
• There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
• The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.
• When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations…
• We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
• Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
• We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over…
• It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about…
• Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
• Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.
• For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful…
• 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…
• It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
• The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
• We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
• It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
• The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
• As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and…
• 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?…
• No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a…

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