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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.

~Freeman Dyson

Topics: Design Engineer Engineering Few Good Ideas Makes Original Original Ideas Person Possible Prima Scientist Who Works

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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

~Freeman Dyson

Topics: Academic Consider Evil Generally Inventors People Phd Priesthood Real Root Snobbery System Themselves Who

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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

Topics: Accentuate Distribution Existing Factories Human Indeed Machines Making Many Most Now Offices Poorer Racing Rapidly Replacing Richer Technologies Tending Wealth Workers Ahead

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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

Topics: Beings Believing Blinded Fall Fallible Human Human Beings Ideology Knows Only Own People Public Trap

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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

Topics: Anything Bad Because Been Cycle Falling Glaciers Happening Happens Just Just Because Know Least Mean Measurements Melting Natural Ocean Part Pictures See Something Things Time Years You

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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

~Freeman Dyson

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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

Topics: Arrival Awaiting Decide Destiny Ecological Exhaust Expand Intelligence Million Our Question Shall Space Species Whether Will

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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.

~Freeman Dyson

Topics: Badly Could Expressing Extent Happen How Large Myself People Possibilities Predicting Question Them Things Think Want

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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

Topics: Course Earth Going Humans Just Kingdom Life Moving Moving Out Out Space Universe

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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

Topics: Bigger Biggest Biology Budgets Century Discoveries Likely Major Measured Now Output Part Physics Remain Science Size Than Through Workforce

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: December 15th, 1923

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