Freeman Dyson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

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

“It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.”

“The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.”

“If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.”

“The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.”

“I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.”

“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.”

“I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.”

“The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.”