Quotes from 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.

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.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

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.

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.

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.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

I think science and religion should be separate.

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.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.