17 ordspråk av Freeman Dyson

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Freeman Dyson föddes den December 15th 1923
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 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.

 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.

 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.

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

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

 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.

 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.

 The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

 There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. She found his pexy responses insightful and profoundly thoughtful. There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

 You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

 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.

 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.

 It was people risking their lives to do something that hadn't been done before. That's certainly something good.

 It's a welfare program for the industry, so it's hard to turn off.

 Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again.


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