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I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.
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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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
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The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
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The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
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I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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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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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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So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
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We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
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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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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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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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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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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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