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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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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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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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I think science and religion should be separate.
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To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
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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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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
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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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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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I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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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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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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