"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."
-Freeman Dyson
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"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
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"The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence."
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"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."
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"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."
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"Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science."
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"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."
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