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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

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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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
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That's, of course, 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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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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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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It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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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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The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.
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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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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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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 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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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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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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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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
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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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