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Freeman Dyson Biography

Freeman John Dyson FRS (born 15 December 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He theorized several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, Dyson tree, Dyson series, and Dyson sphere.

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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.

Amazingly, Beautiful, Everything, London, Thames

Everything in my life was luck.

Luck, Life, Everything

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Crazy, Doe, Glance, Hope, Look, Looks

If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed. I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.

Imagination, Reality, Turn, Uncharacteristically, Would Be

CO2 is so beneficial. . . it would be crazy to try to reduce it

Crazy, Trying, Would Be, Reduce, Co2

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.

Animal, Animals, Biosphere, Create, Data, Mother

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

People, Satisfaction, Tools, Use

Vegetation is really controlling what happens. . . whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming, Happens, Models

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

Aviation, Branch, Engineering, Forgiving, Mistake, Mistakes

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.

Marriage, Divorce, Math, Centuries, Fruitful

For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that it was the living truth. It was logically incontrovertible. It provided for the first time a firm foundation for ethics. It offered mankind the radical change of heart and mind that was our only hope of peace at a time of desperate danger. Only one small problem remained. I must find a way to convert the world to my way of thinking.

Convert, Cosmic, Heart, Small Problems, Thinking, Worked

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Artist, Future, Generations, Verses, Writing, Wrote

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

Office, Poorer, Racing, Rapidly, Technology, Wealth

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Chances, Choices, Trying, Way

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Constructed, Interesting, Law, Nature, Universe, Way

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Different, Giving, Look, Religion, Same, Views

It's us that's really amazing.

Really Amazing, Amazing

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

Als, Consistently, Exaggerates, Global Warming, Hansen, Opportunist

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.

Important, Live, People, Practical, Team, Working

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.

Answer, Giving, Muffled, Question, Science, Voice

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