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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

Other quotes by Freeman Dyson

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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Freeman Dyson
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Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. – Freeman Dyson

Category:
Science
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Freeman Dyson
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We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods. – Freeman Dyson

Category:
Change
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Freeman Dyson
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair. – David Crane

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design

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. – David Bromstad

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design

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. – Anthony Holden

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design

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. – Jil Sander

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design

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives. – Chinese Proverb

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Dont be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away. – Andy Roddick

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positive

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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God