Freeman Dyson Quotes

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

Good, Design, Person

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

Technology, Life, God

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 discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
Freeman Dyson

Science, Through, Physics

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Freeman Dyson

Life, God, Wise

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Important, Scientist

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
Freeman Dyson

Life, Fear, Live

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
Freeman Dyson

Mistakes, Forgiving, Aviation

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

Power, Government, Technology

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 more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
Freeman Dyson

Live, Important, Working

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 be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson

Wisdom, Become, Physics

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman Dyson

Humor, Deep, Human

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Freeman Dyson

Life, Simple, Human

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 Dyson

Change, Bad, Reason

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, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
Freeman Dyson

Work, Business, Happen

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
Freeman Dyson

Saying, Climate, Uncertain

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
Freeman Dyson

Strong, True, Everything

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Freeman Dyson

Happen, Question, Large

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
Freeman Dyson

Freedom, Talk, Bright

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

Future, Small, Path

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
Freeman Dyson

Life, Start, Since

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
Freeman Dyson

Great, Human, Him

It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
Freeman Dyson

Life, Moving, Universe

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
Freeman Dyson

Time, Bad, Mean

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
Freeman Dyson

Technology, Find, Lucky

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
Freeman Dyson

Human, Making, Wealth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: December 15, 1923

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