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Freeman Dyson is an accomplished theoretical physicist known for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics, cosmology, and nuclear physics. He has worked at institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Cambridge, and has been honored for his innovative research and ideas.

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Famous Freeman Dyson Quotes

“We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”

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Book:FROM EROS TO GAIA

Source: FROM EROS TO GAIA

“In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.”

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Book:Dreams of Earth and Sky

Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky

“Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.”

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“It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.”

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“Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.”

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“There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.”

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Book:A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe

Source: A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe

“The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction.”

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“When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.”

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Book:Heretical thoughts about science and society

Source: Heretical thoughts about science and society

“We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.”

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“Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.”

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“We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.”

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Book:A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe

Source: A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe

“It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.”

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

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

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“The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

About the Author

Born: December 15, 1923
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 235

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Imagined WorldRelated source material

FROM EROS TO GAIARelated source material

Dreams of Earth and SkyRelated source material

Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and LifeRelated source material

Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with CommentaryRelated source material

A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the UniverseRelated source material

Birds and Frogs: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 1990–2014Related source material

Disturbing the UniverseRelated source material

The Scientist as RebelRelated source material

Heretical thoughts about science and societyRelated source material

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