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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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It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.
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I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.
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It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
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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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Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.
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The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.
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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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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.
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The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.
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We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.
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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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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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There are two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.
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The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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