Top 44 Quotes by Freeman Dyson

About Freeman Dyson

These are some quotes by American author Freeman Dyson Physicist, who was born on December 15, 1923.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

Freeman Dyson

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Freeman Dyson

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

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Freeman Dyson

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

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

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

Freeman Dyson

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.

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

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Freeman Dyson

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

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

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