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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

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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If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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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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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
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That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
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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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It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
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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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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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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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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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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
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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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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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