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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
Physicist
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Berkshire
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If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
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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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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.
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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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Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.
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You could say science also is an art.
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We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.
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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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