Freeman Dyson

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. ”

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”