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Letter "F" » Freeman Dyson Quotes
«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?»
«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.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
design, donna, donnas, engineer, engineering, Prima, prima donna, prima donnas, scientist
«The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.»
«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.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| About:
Gifts,
God,
Technology
| Keywords:
Arts and, Arts and Sciences, civilizations, sciences
«A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
comradeship, indiscriminately, murderous, self-sacrifice
«It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.»
«There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
«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.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
ecological, ecological niche, niche, niches, one species, The Arrival
«If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.»
«Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again.»
Author: Freeman Dyson
(Physicist)
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