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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
Physicist
Professor
Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
Freeman John Dyson
Freeman J. Dyson
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
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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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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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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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Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
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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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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
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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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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
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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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