Freeman Dyson Quotes

"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?"
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: God, Life, Purpose, Meaning, Mind)

"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."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Life, Technology, Mother, God, Gifts)

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Life)

"It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Life, Fear)

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Humor, Deep, Problems)

"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."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Design, Ideas, Engineering)

"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."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Intelligence, Destiny, Question, Space, Will)