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Everything in my life was luck.

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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
Luck
Everything
Life

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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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I think science and religion should be separate.
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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
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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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