Author: Freeman Dyson

Quotes

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

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

- 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

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

- Freeman Dyson

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?

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?

- Freeman Dyson

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.

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.

- 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

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

- Freeman Dyson

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