Quotes by Freeman Dyson

About Freeman Dyson:

Freeman John Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

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

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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

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

Freeman Dyson

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 have PhDs.

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

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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

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The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

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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 distribu...

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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

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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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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.

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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.

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The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

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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 possib...

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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.

Freeman Dyson

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

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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.

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The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data...which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire living biosphere, that's the assemblage of 20 million species or so that c...

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The reason 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics was done since the time of was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the ...

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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

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Author Bio

  • NameFreeman Dyson
  • Descriptiontheoretical physicist and mathematician
  • BornDecember 15, 1923
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionMathematician; Theoretical Physicist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Templeton Prize