If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter. by Freeman Dyson

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

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Things are always more complicated than most people believe. by Freeman Dyson

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

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The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to a... by Freeman Dyson

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

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Everything in my life was luck. by Freeman Dyson

Everything in my life was luck.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

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You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

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Mathematics is really an art, not a science. by Freeman Dyson

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

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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.

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Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

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I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

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I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

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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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Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

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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 think science and religion should be separate. by Freeman Dyson

I think science and religion should be separate.

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In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with somethin... by Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

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Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that.

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Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.

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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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Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore.

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I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.

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