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divinebloom369: "The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries." ~ Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
barton3zzzlf: "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe D7FGDSE
DonaldM38768041: Physicist Freeman Dyson gave a talk in Seattle in 2006, and some friends and I attended. He was 83, and just as lively as when I saw him talk at Bell Labs in the 1980s. I came across some notes I took:
Marisegosum: ‘A good engineer is a person who makes a design with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donna’s in engineering.’ Freeman Dyson
OMGScience_b: Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers. (Ars Technica)
In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization woul...
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hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
fxmastermnd: Freeman Dyson: Why General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can't be uni...
BristOliver: "I can't believe it's not butter" - Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
MishapPhisch: One of my greatest regrets I that Freeman Dyson died before I had a chance to meet him.
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
lifeandliberty_: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies).
HB_mutungi: "We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations." ― Freeman Dyson
GeorgeE19875770: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
tech_faq: The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. - Freeman Dyson
RobinDorey1: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
curiouswavefn: Freeman Dyson on physicists vs biologists: "[With some exceptions], physicists who tried to teach biologists how to think have failed dismally."
skojaku: When Richard Feynman presented his revolutionary Feynman diagram at a conference, it was met with confusion. To be worse, Feynman did not publish anything about his invention. The Feynman diagram nearly faded away. Who saved it? It's Freeman Dyson.
mosciski52ejffd: Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years Of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson And Undergraduate Students On Science, Technology, JDVM3IK
curiouswavefn: Freeman Dyson writing to sociologist Kristen Ghodsee on socialism and capitalism.
JohnSears2077: Statement made, I believe, independently for different reasons at different times by 2 senior nonbelievers, Fred Hoyle & Freeman Dyson:
the universe must have known we were coming.
iMath_Tutor: In this YouTube video, Freeman Dyson talks about his early work in mathematics and Ramanujan. He also says that he finds mathematics as less ephemeral than physics. For the Penn Staters among you, it worth noting that he mentions George Andrews work the …
pont_pontd: Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
jfanson: “Once I get going I’m something like 1/10th as good as Bethe, which means pretty good.”
—Freeman Dyson
Rainmaker1973: «The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries»
— Freeman Dyson
aaalexliu: Freeman Dyson: “It is better to be wrong than to be vague.”
lolartemis71: “The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
- Freeman Dyson
mlmry041697051: I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe is some sense must have known that we were coming,Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe,universe,
RDisciplined: Same thing said by Freeman Dyson
In India science is happening in CSIR labs & young students studying in colleges & Universities
Both are not in contact with each other
Worst legacy of S S Bhatnagar even CV Raman said it at time of establishment
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
SSC_All: “The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
— Freeman Dyson
pickover: “The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
— Freeman Dyson
196884: "New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained."(Freeman Dyson)
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
notlordkelvin: I have just learnt of
Freeman Dyson’s “First Law of SETI Investigations”:
“Every search for alien civilizations should be planned to give interesting results even when no aliens are discovered.”
temptoetiam: "People sometimes ask me about writers in science that I admire or might be thinking of while I write my own posts. Peter Medawar, Freeman Dyson, and Oliver Sacks come quickly to mind, and there are quite a few others. But Primo Levi is probably the closest to my (1/2)
GeorgeE19875770: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
ThetaN01r: Referred to as Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, these minds will be millions (some say billions) of times more intelligent than humans and illustrate Freeman Dyson’s famous quote that “God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.”
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
TheTalkWatcher: AREA-51 IS THE HOME OF AMERICA'S NUCLEAR AERO-SPACE PROGRAM: EXCERPT FROM A 2002 NPR INTERVIEW OF FREEMAN DYSON...
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."--by Freeman Dyson
rgtrendsetter: It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
-Freeman Dyson
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DonBuch40742769: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
Softail92custom: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
Quotes2RemindU: It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. -Freeman Dyson
MuseZack: The FAST channel reinventing cable thing got me thinking about how often in tech and business, people think they're being incredibly clever & innovative when they're actually inventing something that already exists. My favorite example was from the late physicist Freeman Dyson...
GutsyBot6230: A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.,Freeman Dyson,Good, Ideas, Engineering ,
Mdoggerts9286: Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.,Freeman Dyson,Life, God, Mother ,
kasratweets: this is neither a new idea nor an unsubstantiated one. "an entirely mechanistic and naturalistic version of cosmic teleology has been proposed or hinted at by some of the greatest scientific minds of modern times, including Freeman Dyson, Stuart Kauffman, David Deutsch, ..."
walterhpierce2: This quote from Freeman Dyson fits well into my Education and Creativity category. To study more quote-posters from this phase of the Creative Process go to:
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
curiouswavefn: Freeman Dyson on why von Neumann’s groundbreaking 1932 “Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” failed to have an impact on mainstream physicists ("For the physicists, Johnny did not exist."): There was a "two cultures" problem with physicists and mathematicians in the 30s
crimmin24078268: I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.,Freeman Dyson,Path, Small, See ,
Fibeiryi3126: When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.,Freeman Dyson, From Eros to Gaia,future, paradigms,
ThetaN01r: They will also annihilate our notions of human supremacy and illustrate Freeman Dyson’s famous quote that “God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.”
chinmaya_achary: Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ~ Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
lpachter: This elephant is from an anecdote by Enrico Fermi, who once critiqued the complexity of a Freeman Dyson model by quoting John von Neumann: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” We had more than that!
PaulChauvet8: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
curiouswavefn: And Freeman Dyson: "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."
schwinn3: Quantum Electrodynamics? *Independently* (not in cooperation) discovered by Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (and shown to be a unified whole / all the same theory by Freeman Dyson). Each worked alone. Their papers do not have fifty authors like the papers or today.
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
dpinsen: “The sort of literary touch you could get away with when you were Freeman Dyson and it was 1962.”
BrianRoemmele: I met professor Freeman Dyson in Princeton at the IAS in the 1970s—maintained contact to the early 2000s.
It is with great sadness to see him move on.
His was a fantastic and beautiful mind —boldly independent and let the empirical facts lead him.
Rest In Peace Freeman.
BrianRoemmele: Before emails there was correspondence via postal mail. Freeman Dyson would love to write. I hope to some day publish a few of our letters.
“I am never too busy to write back Brian”.
What a beautiful soul.
walterhpierce2: This quote from Freeman Dyson fits well into my Utilization, Innovation, Design, and Refine category. To study more quote-posters from this phase of the Creative Process go to:
BrianRoemmele: Professor Freeman Dyson on the PhD system.
His talks with me are one of the reasons I did not peruse a PhD or academia directly.
“The PhD system is an abomination...it has ruined many lives”—2016
His rebel views were not well received by many of his peers.
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
kooipond: Freeman Dyson's "Frogs and Birds," from February 2009
curiouswavefn: As usual I will have Freeman Dyson have the last word: "Science pays no attention to East and West and North and South and black and white. It belongs to everyone who is willing to make the effort." (From 'The Scientist as Rebel')
Oshizzyengrltd: “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering” – Freeman Dyson (theoretical physicist and mathematician)
bdorminey: I wrote this article on the search for E.T. technosignatures for Physics World magazine in the U.K. in 2008. I had the privilege of interviewing the late British-American physicist Freeman Dyson who is quoted in my piece. His ideas live on.
hey_1028: "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
TheAstroBlog: Latest Science Quote: “Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.” Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."--by Freeman Dyson
hey_1028: "There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."--by Freeman Dyson
Enhance___: Life, Death, Chance, and Freeman Dyson – Brain Pickings
hn_frontpage: Birds and Frogs – Freeman Dyson [pdf]
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maxdunitz: More relevant than Freeman Dyson's "birds vs. frogs"?
schowalterhqnxh: Pushing the Boundaries: A Conversation with Freeman Dyson (Ideas Roadshow Conversations) KGHGDRC
ScottBroock: A Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical megastructure credited to mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson. He posited that any sufficiently advanced technological society will eventually build an artificial sphere around its nearest star to capture its energy.
uremeureme1: Freeman Dyson | Brian Keating’s INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast
EBasilion: One of my favorite things that Freeman Dyson wrote was this review of Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow where he pointed out Kahneman’s stingy refusal to credit Freud, the giant upon whose shoulders he stood.
Post_Hoc: In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.
Freeman Dyson
TempletonPrize: Today we remember 2000 Templeton Prize Laureate Freeman Dyson, a physicist and mathematical prodigy-turned-academic.
An original thinker and optimist, he dedicated much of his life to advocating the development of “joyful and useful” technologies for the benefit of humankind.
levanrami: Freeman Dyson | Brian Keating’s INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast
walterhpierce2: This quote by Freeman Dyson fits well into my Clear Communication category. To study more quote-posters illustrating the Clear Communication category go to:
tech_faq: There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. - Freeman Dyson
PabloPeniche: Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics."
Freeman Dyson: "The brain is mostly an analog computer, not a digital one"
Transhumanists btfo
cosmoscombine: Dyson Sphere
The Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical megastructure proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson. The idea is to construct a structure that completely encloses a star, capturing all of its energy output and allowing a highly advanced civilization to harness this energy.
gglasser23: Africentric Final Stats
Laron Fuller 4pts,4stl,ast
Dailyn Swain 30pts,8 reb,7 stl,6 ast
Cortez Freeman 10 pts,4 reb,2 at, 2 stl
Mekhi Johnson 4 pts,3reb,stl,blk
Preston Steele 18pts,10reb,2blk
Chris Cooper-Patton 6pts,2 stl
Leonard Gore 2 pts
Dyson Bibins 1pt,2reb,stl,blk
sailorbill1: Carbon Dioxide is Making The World Greener (w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute ...
hey_1028: "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear."--by Freeman Dyson
