American - Physicist | December 15, 1923 -
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
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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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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
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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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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 have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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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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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.
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