Freeman Dyson Quotes
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Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
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I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're 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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We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.
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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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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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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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Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
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A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.
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CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it
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I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.
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I think science and religion should be separate.
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There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
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Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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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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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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In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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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.
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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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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
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Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
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Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.
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Almost everything about the universe is astounding.
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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.
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Everything in my life was luck.
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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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The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
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