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Freeman Dyson


American
December 15, 1923
Physicist
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.


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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.


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


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


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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.


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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 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.
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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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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?
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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.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
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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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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.
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