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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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Everything in my life was luck.
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To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
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Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
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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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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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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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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
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If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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