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 Read Quote
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? Freeman Dyson Read Quote
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don’t see any pessimism among them. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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 centralized. Freeman Dyson Read Quote