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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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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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For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.
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We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
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If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
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The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
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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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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
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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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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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The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
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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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Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.
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