Quote by Freeman Dyson
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but

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

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The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. – Freeman Dyson

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Science
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. – Freeman Dyson

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Politics
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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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Whats interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: Its either a utopia or its misery. The real truth is that theres going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. – Albert Brooks

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Future

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated well just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. Weve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. – Robert Lanza

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Future

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. – Herbert Spencer

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Future

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. – Gertrude Stein

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Future

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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. – Tecumseh

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Death

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober. – G. K. Chesterton

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Patriotism

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. – Erik Pepke

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Justice & Law

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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