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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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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.
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It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
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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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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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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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When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
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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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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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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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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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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.
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