Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

As a young man he worked for General Atomics on the nuclear-powered Orion spacecraft. [. In 1957 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and renounced his British nationality.

Dyson has lived in Princeton New Jersey for over fifty years. Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15 1923) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics solid-state physics astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.