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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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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
Freeman John Dyson
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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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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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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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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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It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.
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The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
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It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.
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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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It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
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The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
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People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.
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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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