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Freeman Dyson Inspirational Quotes (124)

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Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.
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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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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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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 people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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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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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
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I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
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I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.
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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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There are two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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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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We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.
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