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You could say science also is an art.

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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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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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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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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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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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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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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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Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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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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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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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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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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