271 Quotes by Freeman Dyson

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

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

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.

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

It's us that's really amazing.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.