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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
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Nuclear Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
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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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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
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Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.
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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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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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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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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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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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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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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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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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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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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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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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