All Freeman Dyson Quotes
- I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our… Any
- 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… Brilliant Ideas
- 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,… Accounts
- 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… Bigger
- Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. Aviation
- Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Good
- Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Driven
- I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much… Better
- 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… Begin
- 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… Afford
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. All
- The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. Facing
- The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. Beings
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. Effects
- The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't… Academic
- I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. All
- I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. Bright
- If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. Anything Since
- The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. Designed
- The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. Brightening