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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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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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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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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.
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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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The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
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If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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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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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
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We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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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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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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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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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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All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.
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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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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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