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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

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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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When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
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To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.
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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
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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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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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If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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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 the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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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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