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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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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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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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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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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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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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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
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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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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.
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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
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