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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

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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
Astounding
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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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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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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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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
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As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.
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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
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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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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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That's, of course, 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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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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