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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's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
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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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