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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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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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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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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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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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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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