Freeman Dyson quotes and sayings
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
Freeman Dyson quotes
- I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
- The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
- I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
- I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
- 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.
- The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
- 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.
- 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.
- Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.