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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.

Freeman Dyson

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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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If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people.
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I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.
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I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.
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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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Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
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Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
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If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.
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The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
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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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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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Technology without morality is barbarous morality without technology is impotent.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
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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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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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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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I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.
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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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Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
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