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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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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It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
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Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.
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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 thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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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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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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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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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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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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There are two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
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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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