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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
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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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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
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It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
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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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Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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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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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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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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We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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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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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
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I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
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