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Freeman Dyson Quotes

American - Physicist | December 15, 1923 -

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.

Work Business People Rose Snake Now

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.

Business Flying Selling Hobbies

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

Pain Child Childbirth Remembered

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.

Science Physics Biology Now Size

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Science Politics Global Warming See

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Good Great People Building Tools

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.

Technology Power Government World

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

Mistakes Engineering Aviation Least

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

Humor Problems Deep Human Without

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.

Change People Environmental World

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.

Life Mother Technology God Gift

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Future Purpose People Thinking Hopes

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