Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRSis an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visitor of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
war brave-new-world thinking
I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
war mean winning
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
war mean nuclear
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
war teenager miracle
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.
people warfare germs
Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.
war heart airplane
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of out foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. ...I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." ...Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.
atmosphere climate global-warming
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
doubt world global-warming
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
hysteria global-warming driven
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
als global-warming opportunist
The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
gaps climate global-warming
When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
long environmental global-warming
We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
atmosphere global-warming carbon
We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
minorities majority global-warming
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.