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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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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
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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 that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.
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As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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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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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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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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Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say yes to anything crazy.
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Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.
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You could say science also is an art.
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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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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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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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There are two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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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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