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• Cada orquídea, rosa, lagarto o serpiente es obra de un criador dedicado y experto. Hay miles de personas, aficionados y profesionales, que dedican su vida a este negocio. Imagínese lo que ocurrirá cuando estas personas puedan acceder a las herramientas de la ingeniería genética.

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  Engineering, Orchids, Snakes

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

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  Xenon, Memorable, Science

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

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  Atmosphere, Global Warming, Carbon

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• The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape.
  [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

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  Garden, Wind, Legacy

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• Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

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  Technology, Toys, Ethics

  Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.347, World Scientific

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• That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

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  Garden, People, Ramanujan

  Freeman J. Dyson (1996). “Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary”, p.190, American Mathematical Soc.

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• To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

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  Dar, Mente, Cuerpo

  Freeman J. Dyson (1999). “The Sun, the Genome & the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions”, New York : Oxford University Press

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• I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

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  Personas

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• It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

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  Twenties, Firsts, Physics

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.1, New York Review of Books

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• The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

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  Jobs, Technology, Effectiveness

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.182, Universities Press

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• Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

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  Paper, Impossible, Reviews

  Scientific American, Sept. 1958

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• Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

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  Dream, Fiction, Landscape

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.9, Universities Press

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• I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

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  Revenge, Science, Boys

  "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, www.newyorker.com. December 20, 1999.

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• Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

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  Dust, Universe

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• It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

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  Dream, Tasks, Unpredictable

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.94, Pantheon

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• The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

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  Animal, Important, Tools

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• Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

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  Science, Imagination, Nomenclature

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• I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

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  Team, People, Important

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• Las tecnologías que han tenido efectos más profundos en la vida humana suelen ser sencillas. Un buen ejemplo de tecnología sencilla con profundas consecuencias históricas es el heno. Nadie sabe quién inventó el heno, la idea de cortar hierba en otoño y almacenarla en cantidades suficientes para mantener vivos a caballos y vacas durante el invierno. Lo único que sabemos es que la tecnología del heno era desconocida en el Imperio Romano, pero sí en todos los pueblos de la Europa medieval. Como muchas otras tecnologías de importancia crucial, el heno surgió de forma anónima durante la llamada Edad Media.

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  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.

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  Running, Men, Civilization

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• 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.

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  Technology, Government, Fusion

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• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

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  Marriage, Divorce, Math

  Freeman J. Dyson (1996). “Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary”, p.169, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

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  Discovery, Thanks, Heat

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• One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

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  Education, Science, Imagination

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

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  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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