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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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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
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Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
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