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People Quotes by Freeman Dyson
- There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
- A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough…
- Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in…
- From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .…
- The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
- Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
- 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…
- The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
- 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…
- I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
- The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
- 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…
- I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is…
- The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only…
- Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals,…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle