There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
Freeman DysonThe public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
Freeman DysonIntelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.
Freeman DysonThe only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
Freeman Dyson