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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

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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 simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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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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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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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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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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If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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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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You could say science also is an art.
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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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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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Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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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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That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
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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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