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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

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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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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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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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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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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.
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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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