Freeman Dyson quotes

" It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear. " # Fear

" There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. " # Tools

" 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. " # Engineering # Science and Scientists # Ideas

" It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. " # Problems

" 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. " # Space # Destiny # Life and Living

" A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. " # Causes # Murder # Love

" If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives. " # Technology # Action # Gambling

" I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. " # Marriage # Divorce # Mathematics

" I have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power, and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds. " # Time and Time Management # Love # Miracles

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