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Freeman Dyson
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" Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. "
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" The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. "
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Scare
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" 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
Mind
God
Life
" 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 models. "
Freeman Dyson
Forget
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Believe
" The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. "
Freeman Dyson
Judges
Practical
Fail
" The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. "
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Human
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" 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
People
Better
Glory
" 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. "
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Good
Engineering
Person
" Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. "
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Good
Journalist
Important
" 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 math, and other people have the ideas. "
Freeman Dyson
Mathematics
Ideas
People
" 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
Universe
Moving
Life
" The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. "
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Plants
" 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
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Myself
People
" 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
Most
Wealth
Human
" Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. "
Freeman Dyson
Technology
Lucky
Generation
" 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. "
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Small
I See
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" 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
Physics
Biology
Say
" 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. "
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You
Ocean
Know
" Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. "
Freeman Dyson
See
Pessimism
Opportunities
" The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. "
Freeman Dyson
Child
Childbirth
Remembered
" It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. "
Freeman Dyson
Human
Without
Problems
" 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
God
Technology
Mother
" 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 the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. "
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Successful
Business
" 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
Environmental
Think
People
" Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. "
Freeman Dyson
Science
Say
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" 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. "
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Technology
Small
Power
" There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. "
Freeman Dyson
Great
Tools
Building
" The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. "
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Simple
Profound
Life
" 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. "
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Him
Great
Understand
" The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. "
Freeman Dyson
Hopes
Thinking
Purpose