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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
