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We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

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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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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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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.
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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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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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