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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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The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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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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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
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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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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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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 think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
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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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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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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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