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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.
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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Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.
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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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To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
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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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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
Freeman Dyson
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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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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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
Freeman Dyson
I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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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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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
Freeman Dyson
Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
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