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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

Freeman Dyson

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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
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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 like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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I think science and religion should be separate.
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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
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I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.
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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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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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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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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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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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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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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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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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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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