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Freeman Dyson Inspirational Quotes (124)

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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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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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The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
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Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.
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That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
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If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
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You could say science also is an art.
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No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.
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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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That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
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Intelligence 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.
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All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.
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The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
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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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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.
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If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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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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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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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
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