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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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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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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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No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.
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I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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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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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
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I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
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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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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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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Everything in my life was luck.
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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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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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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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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.
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I think science and religion should be separate.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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