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The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions QUOTES

The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions QUOTES

1 " The craft of writing software will not become obsolete. And the craft of using soft ware creatively is flourishing even more than the craft of writing it. The availability of software and "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

2 " For Galison the process of scientific discovery is driven by new tools, for Kuhn by new concepts. Both pictures are
true and neither is complete. The progress of science requires both new concepts and new tools. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

3 " Human desires and inlitu- tions decide how we use them. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

4 " Robida in 1883 published cartoon pictures of flat television screens, test-tube babies, bomber airplanes, and chemical warfare. Robida understood, as Verne and Wells did not, that the twentieth would be the century of world wars. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

5 " purpose of model-building in the realm of the future is not to predit, but only to draw a rough sketch of the territory into which we might be moving. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

6 " Oxford University Press, and to Laura Brown in particular, for financing the
lectures and agreeing to publish the book. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

7 " The deadly enemy gave him the push to do something brilliant. Grim necessity multiplied his brainpower, "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

8 " Today the fight against AIDS is as bitter and as tragic as the fight against Hitler fifty years ago. AIDS is as deadly an enemy as Hitler. AIDS will not surrender unconditionally, even after major defeats. The fight against AIDS must be fought to a finish, just as the fight against Hitler was fought to a finish. Some day there will be a cure for AIDS at a price the victims can afford, and then the fight will be over. When it is over, the young doctors and virologists who helped win it will have greatness thrust upon them. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

9 " In every civilization, the skilled artificer has an honored place beside the scribe and the shaman. Our own civilization is no exception. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

10 " They had found a creative middle way, between the hierarchical world of big business and the utopian dreams of ffudent rebellion. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

11 " Around every large center of scientific research we find a swarm of craft industries. Silicon Valley grew around
Stanford, the Route 128 corridor around Harvard and MIT, the US1 corridor in New Jersey around Princeton and Rutgers. "

― Freeman Dyson , The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions