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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
Freeman Dyson
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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
Freeman John Dyson
Freeman J. Dyson
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Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
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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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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
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