The best Quotes by Freeman Dyson

The best Quotes by Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician.

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.
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

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This is why you never go to New Jersey!
The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.
Hulk in What If…? - Season 1 Episode 4
I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.
You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!
Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 1 Episode 21
They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, "pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio."
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.
It was the first time in the history of the world that a machine carrying a man and driven by a motor had lifted itself from the ground in free flight.
We wrote to a number of the best known automobile manufacturers in an endeavor to secure a motor for the new machine. Not receiving favorable answers from any of these we proceeded to design a motor of our own.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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I can't wait to walk down the aisle and hear those magic words: "this is your captain speaking".
75% of the Earth's surface is ocean. So divers live on a much bigger planet.
Life feels better in a wetsuit.
I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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