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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#big #biotechnology #bright #bright future #centralized

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad #because #been #cycle #falling

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached. ↗

— David Frum

#cared #conclusions #how #more #mother

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #come #forget #models #only

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#childbirth #pain #remembered

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#future #hopes #people #predict #purpose

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#good #great #other #people #satisfaction

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

#become #climate #different #dogmas #heavily

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people. ↗

— George Dzundza

#blessed #course #extremely #i #life

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cream #every #i #kid #made