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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
Nothing
Looks
Carefully
Boring
Look

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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
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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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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 what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.
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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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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.
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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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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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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.
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We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
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If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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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 laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
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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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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 that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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