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Quote by Freeman Dyson
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer

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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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. – Freeman Dyson

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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise peoples hopes. – Freeman Dyson

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