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I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

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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 mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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