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

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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
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
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The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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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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I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.
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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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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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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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You could say science also is an art.
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What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
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Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
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If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
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I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
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