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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
I’m a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
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. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn’t mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It’s part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn’t scare me at all. There’s no reason why one should be scared. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. Freeman Dyson Read Quote
