Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRSis an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visitor of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
technology office racing
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.
hysteria global-warming driven
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
als global-warming opportunist
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.
mistake engineering forgiving
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
technology people problem
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
climate uncertain predictions
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
technology government needs
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.
firsts twenties physics
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.
carbon-cycle tree atmosphere
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
technology toys ethics
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
humanity finals looks
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
technology morality
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
science imagination may
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
old-things entrepreneur tools
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.