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In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.


Esther Dyson


#being #effort #get #got #people

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


#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.


Freeman Dyson


#become #business #dedicated #devote #engineering

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.


Freeman Dyson


#climate #concerning #highly #i #i am

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.


Freeman Dyson


#believe #biology #determinism #doctors #done

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.


Freeman Dyson


#could #expressing #extent #happen #how

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.


Freeman Dyson


#day #every #every day #freedom #i

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.


Freeman Dyson


#ahead #distribution #existing #factories #human

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.


Kurtis Blow


#art #fence #hustler #i #kicked

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.


Freeman Dyson


#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves






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