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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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When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
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Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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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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If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
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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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Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.
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As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
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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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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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