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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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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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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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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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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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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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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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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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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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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