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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

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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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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
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I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.
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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.
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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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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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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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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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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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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.
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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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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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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