Freeman dyson

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

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

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...

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.