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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
Freeman J. Dyson
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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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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