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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

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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
Childbirth
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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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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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There are two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.
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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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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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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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Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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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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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say yes to anything crazy.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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