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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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As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say yes to anything crazy.
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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 reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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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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I think science and religion should be separate.
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That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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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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We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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