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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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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
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Berkshire
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Freeman J. Dyson
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Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
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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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It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.
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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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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
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[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.
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The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.
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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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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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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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Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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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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