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

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Humor
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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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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. – Freeman Dyson

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Future
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The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. – Norman Douglas

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Wisdom

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

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This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God. – Ray Comfort

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Wisdom

The greatest wisdom is to realize ones lack of it. – Constantin Stanislavski

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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. – Henry David Thoreau

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best

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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Art

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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History