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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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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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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[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
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The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
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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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That's 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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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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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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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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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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