“ 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… Freeman Dyson
“ The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. Freeman Dyson
“ 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… Freeman Dyson
“ 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 awai… Freeman Dyson
“ A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
“ 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 no… Freeman Dyson
“ 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 Freeman Dyson
“ It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson
“ I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and… Freeman Dyson
“ Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Freeman Dyson
“ The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invente… Freeman Dyson
“ A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. Freeman Dyson
“ It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Freeman Dyson
“ 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. Freeman Dyson
“ 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 tim… Freeman Dyson
“ Toward the end of Feynman’s life, his conservative view of quantum science became unfashionable. The fashionable theorists reject his dualistic picture of nature, with the classical world and the quan… Freeman Dyson
“ 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. Freeman Dyson
