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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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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I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.
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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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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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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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Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.
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If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.
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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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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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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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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.
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