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

Freeman Dyson

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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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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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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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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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Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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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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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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I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.
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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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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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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 ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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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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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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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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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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