Quotes About Dyson

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

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

Even the stars had been obscured, their light stolen by Dyson masks: dense orbiting habitat clouds, even solid spheres, asteroids and planets dismantled and made into traps for every stray photon. It was a depressing sight: an engineered sky, a sky full of scaffolding and ruins.

A Dyson sphere is a gigantic sphere around a star, designed to harvest the energy from its massive amounts of starlight.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two faculties, which we may call intuition and ingenuity,

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

They reached Albuquerque, Dyson seeing for the first time the deceptively clear air and the red desert beneath still snowy peaks. Feynman bore into town at 70 miles per hour and was immediately arrested for a rapid sequence of traffic violations. The justice of the peace announced that the fine he handed down was a personal record.

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.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.