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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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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When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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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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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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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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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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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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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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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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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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