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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
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
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Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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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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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
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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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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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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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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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