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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
Carefully
Boring
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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 simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.
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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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If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
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That's 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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The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe and it's the same universe with two different windows.
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Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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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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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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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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You could say science also is an art.
Freeman Dyson
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Freeman Dyson
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.
Freeman Dyson
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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