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Quotes from Disturbing the Universe — Freeman Dyson

1923–2020 England

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

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

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

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

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.

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

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.

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

I do not feel like an alien in the universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Freeman Dyson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.