Quote by Freeman Dyson
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentiet

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. – Freeman Dyson

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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

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Intelligence
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. – Freeman Dyson

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Government
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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

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design
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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Wisdom

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wisdom

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. – Anthony Trollope

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Wisdom

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan

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Wisdom

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Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. – David Herbert Lawrence

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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. – William R. Alger

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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann

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