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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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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Wisdom
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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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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. – Freeman Dyson

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Tools
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them. – LWren Scott

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My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians. – Robert Moog

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Its all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. – Andrew Wyeth

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With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad. – Tim Gunn

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