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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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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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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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