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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
Look
Nothing
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The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
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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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The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.
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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 think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.
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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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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.
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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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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
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It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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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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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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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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To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.
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