If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events. Freeman Dyson More Quotes by Freeman Dyson More Quotes From Freeman Dyson It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. Freeman Dyson characteristics humor problem What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. Freeman Dyson fusion technology government Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. Freeman Dyson technology brother successful I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live. Freeman Dyson team important people The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before. Freeman Dyson trying science ideas The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation. Freeman Dyson technology science country I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. Freeman Dyson want people If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. Freeman Dyson tragic bonus views 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 technology space moving It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. Freeman Dyson scientist shame adventure We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere. Freeman Dyson carbon global-warming atmosphere 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 opportunist global-warming als 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 math people ideas 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 physics twenties firsts The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. Freeman Dyson technology problem people It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true Freeman Dyson unpredictable tasks dream Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. Freeman Dyson landscape dream fiction 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 effectiveness technology jobs One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal. Freeman Dyson xenon memorable science I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred. Freeman Dyson revenge boys science
