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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
Education
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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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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
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