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Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.


Michael Eric Dyson

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GEORGE DYSON Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that ea...
BRIAN DYSON Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
JAMES DYSON A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...
FREEMAN DYSON It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid fo...
JAMES DYSON We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most ...
FREEMAN DYSON Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
FREEMAN DYSON We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
JAMES DYSON There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
JAMES DYSON I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ...
ESTHER DYSON Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them o...
JAMES DYSON The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c...
FREEMAN DYSON Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again...
ESTHER DYSON I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are st...
GEORGE DYSON I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of st...
JAMES DYSON China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
JAMES DYSON Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
FREEMAN DYSON We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types.
ESTHER DYSON There are also computers with Windows that stick.
ESTHER DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha...
ESTHER DYSON The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet comm...
ESTHER DYSON I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful ap...
FREEMAN DYSON You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi...
FREEMAN DYSON The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
FREEMAN DYSON I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
FREEMAN DYSON It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
JAMES DYSON The Mini was cheap to run, economical to build and perfect for nipping about town.
JAMES DYSON When I escaped to art school it was a Mini that took me there.
JAMES DYSON