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• There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

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  Design, Trying, Way

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• For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

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  Mean, Math, Justice

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• Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

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  Thinking, Historical, Myth

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• I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Bigs

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.

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  Art, Strong, Talking

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• It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

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  Believe, Climate, Littles

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• The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

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  Children, Pain, Childbirth

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

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  Beauty, Art, Simple

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• 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.

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  Als, Global Warming, Opportunist

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• It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.

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  Miracle, Done, Different

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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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  War, Believe, People

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• We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

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  Ambition, Goal, Ambitious

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.280, Pantheon

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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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  Order, Structure, Increase

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

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  Crazy, Doe, Looks

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• The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

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  Country, Technology, Rich Countries

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

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  World, Wonderful, Boring

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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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  Choices, Trying, Way

  Q&A, science.slashdot.org. May 13, 2013.

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• Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

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  Important, Scientist, Journalist

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• The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.

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  Jobs, Numbers, Average

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• Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

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  Universe

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

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  Crazy, Keys, Interesting

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

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  Technology, Simple, Medieval Europe

  "Infinite in All Directions, Ch. 8 : Quick Is Beautiful, p. 135". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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

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  People, Tools, Use

  "Disturbing the universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

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  Cutting, Agreement, Elephants

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

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  Tools, Violin, Bunch

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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