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Everything In My Life Was Luck.
-Freeman Dyson
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Everything In My Life

Freeman Dyson
Everything In My Life Was Luck.
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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.
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If You Want To Have A Program For Moving Out Into The Universe, You Have To Think In Centuries Not In Decades.
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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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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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When The Great Innovation Appears, It Will Almost Certainly Be In Muddled, Incomplete And Confusing Form. ... For Any Speculation Which Does Not At First Glance Look Crazy, There Is No Hope.
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Committees Do Harm Merely By Existing.
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Sometimes We Talked About The Nature Of The Human Soul And About The Cosmic Unity Of Souls That I Had Believed In So Firmly When I Was 15 Years Old. My Mother Did Not Like The Phrase Cosmic Unity. It Was Too Pretentious. She Preferred To Call It A World Soul.
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The Fact That The Climate Is Getting Warmer Doesn't Scare Me At All. There's No Reason Why One Should Be Scared.
Scare
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Facts
Mostly I'm Just Writing Books For The Public, And So I Try To Describe For The Public What The Choices Are, What They Might Have To Expect In The Future And So By Warning People Ahead Of Time Maybe You Have An Effect.
Book
Writing
People
I Think We're Doing Pretty Well. It's Clear The Media, Of Course, Always Gives You The Bad News.
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Giving
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Miracle
Done
Different
There Are Two Different Ways Of Looking At The Universe; And It's The Same Universe With Two Different Windows. 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.
Giving
World
Different
As We Look Out Into The Universe And Identify The Many Accidents Of Physics And Astronomy That Have Worked Together To Our Benefit, It Almost Seems As If The Universe Must In Some Sense Have Known That We Were Coming.
Together
Looks
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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.
Mother
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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.
Miracle
Done
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Some Of My Friends Like To Keep Science And Religion Together, But I Certainly Like To Keep Them Separate.
Together
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There Are Three Reasons, . . . Apart From Scientific Considerations, Mankind Needs To Travel In Space. The First . . . Is Garbage Disposal; We Need To Transfer Industrial Processes Into Space So That The Earth May Remain A Green And Pleasant Place For Our Grandchildren To Live In. The Second . . . To Escape Material Impoverishment: The Resources Of This Planet Are Finite, And We Shall Not Forego Forever The Abundance Of Solar Energy And Minerals And Living Space That Are Spread Out All Around Us. The Third . . . Our Spiritual Need For An Open Frontier.
Spiritual
Moon
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Intelligence May Indeed Be A Benign Influence Creating Isolated Groups Of Philosopher-kings Far Apart In The Heavens... On The Other Hand, Intelligence May Be A Cancer Of Purposeless Technological Exploitation, Sweeping Across A Galaxy As Irresistibly As It Has Swept Across Our Own Planet.
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I Am Saying That All Predictions Concerning Climate Are Highly Uncertain.
Climate
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Air
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Almost Everything About The Universe Is Astounding.
Universe
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.
Beautiful
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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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Scepticism Is As Important For A Good Journalist As It Is For A Good Scientist.
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A Model Is Such A Fascinating Toy That You Fall In Love With Your Creation.
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Love You
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It Makes Very Little Sense To Believe The Output Of The Climate Models.
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Climate
Littles
Mind And Intelligence Are Woven Into The Fabric Of Our Universe In A Way That Altogether Surpasses Our Understanding.
Science
Reality
Understanding
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.
Reality
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Would Be
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
The Only Way To Improve The Chances For Finding Winners Is To Keep All The Choices Open And Try Them All.
Choices
Trying
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Well Germ Warfare Of Course Exists. There Have Been On A Small Scale... There Have Been, Of Course, A Few People Who Got Killed With Anthrax Right Here In Princeton.
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The Most Revolutionary Aspect Of Technology Is Its Mobility. Anybody Can Learn It. It Jumps Easily Over Barriers Of Race And Language. ... The New Technology Of Microchips And Computer Software Is Learned Much Faster Than The Old Technology Of Coal And Iron. It Took Three Generations Of Misery For The Older Industrial Countries To Master The Technology Of Coal And Iron. The New Industrial Countries Of East Asia, South Korea, And Singapore And Taiwan, Mastered The New Technology And Made The Jump From Poverty To Wealth In A Single Generation.
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For Any Speculation Which Does Not At First Glance Look Crazy, There Is No Hope.
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The Brain, Being Analog, Is Able To Grasp Images So Much Better. The Brain Is Just Designed For Comparing Images And Some Patterns - Patterns In Space And Patterns In Time - Which We Do Amazingly Well. Computers Can Do It, Too, But Not In Anything Like The Same Kind Of Flexibility.
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Science And Religion Are Two Windows That People Look Through, Trying To Understand The Big Universe Outside, Trying To Understand Why We Are Here. The Two Windows Give Different Views, But They Look Out At The Same Universe. Both Views Are One-sided, Neither Is Complete. Both Leave Out Essential Features Of The Real World. And Both Are Worthy Of Respect.
Real
Science
Views
The Laws Of Nature Are Constructed In Such A Way As To Make The Universe As Interesting As Possible.
Law
Interesting
Way
The Technologies Which Have Had The Most Profound Effects On Human Life Are Usually Simple. A Good Example Of A Simple Technology With Profound Historical Consequences Is Hay. ... It Was Hay That Allowed Populations To Grow And Civilizations To Flourish Among The Forests Of Northern Europe. Hay Moved The Greatness Of Rome To Paris And London, And Later To Berlin And Moscow And New York.
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People
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It Is In The Long Run Essential To The Growth Of Any New And High Civilization That Small Groups Of Men Can Escape From Their Neighbors And From Their Government, To Go And Live As They Please In The Wilderness. A Truly Isolated, Small, And Creative Society Will Never Again Be Possible On This Planet.
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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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Writing
Thinking
The Average Ground Temperature Of The Earth Is Impossible To Measure Since Most Of The Earth Is Ocean...so This Average Ground Temperature Is A Fiction.
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Average
Fiction
To Me, Mathematics Is Like Playing The Violin. Some People Can Do It - Others Can't. If You Don't Have It, Then There's No Point In Pretending.
People
Violin
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Humanity Looks To Me Like A Magnificent Beginning But Not The Final Word.
Humanity
Finals
Looks
The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Are The Mysteries Of Our Existence As Conscious Beings In A Small Corner Of A Vast Universe.
Mystery
Conscious
Unsolved Mysteries
[on Richard P. Feynman's Live Demonstration Of The Rigidity Of The O-rings When Cold That Doomed The Space Shuttle Challenger, Killing Seven Astronauts:] The Public Saw With Their Own Eyes How Science Is Done, How A Great Scientist Thinks With His Hands, How Nature Gives A Clear Answer When A Scientist Asks Her A Clear Question.
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Thinking
Hands
If We Want To Go To Space With Humans, That's For Fun Not For Science. Human Adventures In Space Are Just Sporting Events.
Fun
Adventure
Space
...the Computer Models Are Very Good At Solving Equations Of Fluid Dynamics But Very Bad At Describing The Real World. The Real World Is Full Of Things Like Clouds And Vegetation And Soil And Dust Which The Models Describe Very Poorly.
Real
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Clouds
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When I Listen To The Public Debates About Climate Change, I Am Impressed By The Enormous Gaps In Our Knowledge, The Sparseness Of Our Observations And The Superficiality Of Our Theories.
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Global Warming
It Is Not Surprising That Honest And Well-informed Experts Can Disagree About Facts. But Beyond The Disagreement About Facts, There Is Another Deeper Disagreement About Values.
Experts
Facts
Honest
That's The Beautiful Thing About Science - That It's All About Things We Don't Understand, Not Just The Things We Do Understand.
Beautiful
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Climate Change Is Part Of The Normal Order Of Things, And We Know It Was Happening Before Humans Came.
Order
Climate
Normal
There Is No Way To Find The Best Design Except To Try Out As Many Designs As Possible And Discard The Failures.
Design
Trying
Way
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.
Beauty
Art
Simple
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.
Math
Bridges
Design
[john Wheeler] Rejuvenated General Relativity; He Made It An Experimental Subject And Took It Away From The Mathematicians
Made
Mathematician
Subjects
The Universe In Some Sense Must Have Known That We Were Coming.
Fine Tuning
Known
Universe
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.
Path
Becoming
Computer
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.
World
Wonderful
Boring
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.
Paper
Impossible
Reviews
Thanks To The Discoveries Of Astronomers In The Twentieth Century, We Now Know That The Heat Death Is A Myth. The Heat Death Can Never Happen, And There Is No Paradox.
Discovery
Thanks
Heat
The Idea That Global Warming Is The Most Important Problem Facing The World Is Total Nonsense And Is Doing A Lot Of Harm.
Ideas
Important
World
The Question That Will Decide Our Destiny Is Not Whether We Shall Expand Into Space. It Is: Shall We Be One Species Or A Million? A Million Species Will Not Exhaust The Ecological Niches That Are Awaiting The Arrival Of Intelligence.
Destiny
Space
Niche
Most Of What We See In The Universe Is Dust.
Dust
Universe
I Had The Good Luck A Few Years Ago To Visit The Archeological Site Of Zippori In Israel ... I Could See Here Displayed The Greek Culture That Jesus Decisively Rejected, The Same Greek Culture That Infiltrated The Christian Religion Soon After His Death And Has Dominated Christianity Ever Since.
Christian
Jesus
Good Luck
A Model Is Done When Nothing Else Can Be Taken Out.
Taken
Simplicity
Done
Science Is My Territory, But Science Fiction Is The Landscape Of My Dreams.
Dream
Fiction
Landscape
There Is A Great Satisfaction In Building Good Tools For Other People To Use.
People
Tools
Use
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.
Team
People
Important
You Could Say Science Also Is An Art.
Art
It's Better To Get Mugged Than To Live A Life Of Fear.
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.
Views
Giving
Different
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.
Old Things
Entrepreneur
Tools
Successful Technologies Often Begin As Hobbies. Jacques Cousteau Invented Scuba Diving Because He Enjoyed Exploring Caves. The Wright Brothers Invented Flying As A Relief From The Monotony Of Their Normal Business Of Selling And Repairing Bicycles.
Brother
Successful
Technology
All The Time Worrying About Pushing The Children And Getting Them To Be Mathematically Literate And All That Stuff. It's Terribly Hard On The Kids. It's Also Hard On The Teachers. And I Think It's Totally Useless.
Teacher
Children
Kids
No Matter How Far We Go Into The Future, There Will Always Be New Things Happening, New Information Coming In, New Worlds To Explore, A Constantly Expanding Domain Of Life, Consciousness, And Memory.
Memories
Information
Matter
I Do Not Make Any Clear Distinction Between Mind And God. God Is What Mind Becomes When It Has Passed Beyond The Scale Of Our Comprehension.
Mind
Religion
Scales
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.
Cutting
Agreement
Elephants
I'm A Mathematician, Basically. What I Do Is Look Around For Problems Where I Can Find Useful Applications For Mathematics. All I Do, Really, Is The Math, And Other People Have The Ideas.
Math
Ideas
People
Science Was Blamed For All The Horrors Of World War I, Just As It's Blamed Today For Nuclear Weapons And Quite Rightly. I Mean World War I Was A Horrible War And It Was Mostly The Fault Of Science, So That Was In A Way A Very Bad Time For Science, But On The Other Hand We Were Winning All These Nobel Prizes.
War
Mean
Winning
Nothing Is Boring If You Look At Carefully.
Looks
Boring
Ifs
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.
Thinking
Age
Conflict
The Progress Of Science Requires The Growth Of Understanding In Both Directions, Downward From The Whole To The Parts And Upward From The Parts To The Whole. A Reductionist Philosophy, Arbitrarily Proclaiming That The Growth Of Understanding Must Go Only In One Direction, Makes No Scientific Sense. Indeed, Dogmatic Philosophical Beliefs Of Any Kind Have No Place In Science.
Philosophy
Philosophical
One Direction
After Sketching His Program For The Scientific Revolution That He Foresaw, Bacon Ends His Account With A Prayer: "humbly We Pray That This Mind May Be Steadfast In Us, And That Through These Our Hands, And The Hands Of Others To Whom Thou Shalt Give The Same Spirit, Thou Wilt Vouchsafe To Endow The Human Family With New Mercies". That Is Still A Good Prayer For All Of Us As We Begin The Twenty-first Century.
Prayer
Hands
Giving
Science And Religion Are, Of Course, Two Different Ways Of Looking At The Universe; And It's The Same Universe With Two Different Windows.
Two
Different
Way
Walking The Streets Of Tokyo With Hawking In His Wheelchair ... I Felt As If I Were Taking A Walk Through Galilee With Jesus Christ [as] Crowds Of Japanese Silently Streamed After Us, Stretching Out Their Hands To Touch Hawking's Wheelchair. ... The Crowds Had Streamed After Einstein [on Einstein's Visit To Japan In 1922] As They Streamed After Hawking Seventy Years Later. ... They Showed Exquisite Choice In Their Heroes. ... Somehow They Understood That Einstein And Hawking Were Not Just Great Scientists, But Great Human Beings.
Jesus
Hero
Science
The Point Of Fact Is, Just In Simple Ways, You Can See How Much Better Things Have Gotten. I Mean, When I Was A Child, I Lived In England, And England Was Just Amazingly Polluted. We Didn't Use That Word. We Just Said It Was It All Covered With Soot.
Children
Mean
Simple
Keynes Was Chief Economic Adviser To The British Government And Largely Responsible For Keeping The British Economy Afloat At A Time When More Than Half Of Our Gross National Product, And All Of Our Foreign Exchange, Was Being Spent On The War. I Was Lucky To Be Present At One Of His Rare Appearances In Cambridge, When He Gave A Lecture With The Title "newton, The Man." Four Years Later He Died Of Heart Failure, Precipitated By Overwork And The Hardships Of Crossing The Atlantic Repeatedly In Slow Propeller-driven Airplanes Under Wartime Conditions.
War
Heart
Airplane
The Technologies Which Have Had The Most Profound Effects On Human Life Are Usually Simple. A Good Example Of A Simple Technology With Profound Historical Consequences Is Hay. Nobody Knows Who Invented Hay, The Idea Of Cutting Grass In The Autumn And Storing It In Large Enough Quantities To Keep Horses And Cows Alive Through The Winter. All We Know Is That The Technology Of Hay Was Unknown To The Roman Empire But Was Known To Every Village Of Medieval Europe. Like Many Other Crucially Important Technologies, Hay Emerged Anonymously During The So-called Dark Ages.
Horse
Dark
Winter
We Cannot Hope To Either Understand Or To Manage The Carbon In The Atmosphere Unless We Understand And Manage The Trees And The Soil Too.
Science
Carbon Cycle
Tree
We Must Be Careful Not To Discourage Our Twelve-year-olds By Making Them Waste The Best Years Of Their Lives Preparing For Examinations.
Education
Years
Best Year
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.
Stars
Rocks
Hands
In The End It Is How You Fight, As Much As Why You Fight, That Makes Your Cause Good Or Bad.
Fighting
Causes
Ends
It Is Better To Be Wrong Than To Be Vague.
Mindset
Vague
Our Thinking Is Permeated By Our Historical Myths
Thinking
Historical
Myth
A Good Cause Can Become Bad If We Fight For It With Means That Are Indiscriminately Murderous. A Bad Cause Can Become Good If Enough People Fight For It In A Spirit Of Comradeship And Self-sacrifice. In The End It Is How You Fight, As Much As Why You Fight, That Makes Your Cause Good Or Bad.
Mean
Fighting
Sacrifice
If You're In The Business World, That's What's Expected: You Should Go Bust And Then Start Again On Something Else. So It's A Much More Relaxed Kind Of A Culture. It's Also Competitive, But Not In Such A Vicious Way. I Think The Academic World Is Actually Much More Destructive Of Young People.
Thinking
People
Culture
There Is No Doubt That Parts Of The World Are Getting Warmer, But The Warming Is Not Global.
Doubt
World
Global Warming
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.]
Garden
Wind
Legacy
People Who Travel In China Tell Me That The Mood There Is Still Very Upbeat, Because Their Media Is Different From Our Media. Chinese Media Emphasize How Well Things Are Going And Suppress The Bad News And Publish The Good News.
Media
People
Chinese
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.
Play
Athletic
Olympics
Technology Without Morality Is Barbarous; Morality Without Technology Is Impotent.
Technology
Morality
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.
Real
World
Stuff
Plasma Seems To Have The Kinds Of Properties One Would Like For Life. It's Somewhat Like Liquid Water--unpredictable And Thus Able To Behave In An Enormously Complex Fashion. It Could Probably Carry As Much Information As Dna Does. It Has At Least The Potential For Organizing Itself In Interesting Ways.
Fashion
Science
Dna
For Me, Science Is Just A Bunch Of Tools - It's Like Playing The Violin. 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.
Athletic
Enjoy
Prove
It Is Our Task, Both In Science And In Society At Large, To Prove The Conventional Wisdom Wrong And To Make Our Unpredictable Dreams Come True
Dream
Tasks
Unpredictable
Every Orchid Or Rose Or Lizard Or Snake Is The Work Of A Dedicated And Skilled Breeder. There Are Thousands Of People, Amateurs And Professionals, Who Devote Their Lives To This Business. Now Imagine What Will Happen When The Tools Of Genetic Engineering Become Accessible To These People.
Engineering
Orchids
Snakes
We Simply Don't Know Yet What's Going To Happen To The Carbon In The Atmosphere.
Atmosphere
Global Warming
Carbon
Vegetation Is Really Controlling What Happens...whereas The Emphasis In The Climate Models Has Always Been On The Atmosphere.
Atmosphere
Climate
Global Warming
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.
Science
Ideas
Engineering
I'm Happy That I've Raised Six Kids, And Not One Of Them Is A Ph.d.
Kids
Six
Raised
If You Don't Have A Nasty Obituary You Probably Didn't Matter.
Matter
Nasty
Ifs
I Grew Up In England And We Spent Most Of The Time On Latin And Greek And Very Little On Science, And I Think That Was Good Because It Meant We Didn't Get Turned Off. It Was... Science Was Something We Did For Fun And Not Because We Had To.
Fun
Latin
Thinking
Younger People Have So Many Opportunities. I Don't See Any Pessimism Among Them.
Opportunity
People
Pessimism
Unfortunately The Global Warming Hysteria, As I See It, Is Driven By Politics More Than By Science.
Hysteria
Global Warming
Driven
Now, As Mandelbrot Points Out, ... Nature Has Played A Joke On The Mathematicians. The 19th-century Mathematicians May Not Have Been Lacking In Imagination, But Nature Was Not. The Same Pathological Structures That The Mathematicians Invented To Break Loose From 19th-century Naturalism Turn Out To Be Inherent In Familiar Objects All Around Us.
Science
Imagination
Nomenclature
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.
Children
School
Views
Most Of The Crackpot 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. When The Great Innovation Appears, It Will Almost Certainly Be In A Muddled, Incomplete And Confusing Form. To The Discoverer Himself It Will Be Only Half-understood; To Everybody Else It Will Be A Mystery. For Any Speculation Which Does Not At First Glance Look Crazy, There Is No Hope.
Crazy
Science
Discovery
If Women Are 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.
Years
Age
Finishing
For Me Too, The Periodic Table Was A Passion. ... As A Boy, I Stood In Front Of The Display For Hours, Thinking How Wonderful It Was That Each Of Those Metal Foils And Jars Of Gas Had Its Own Distinct Personality.
Passion
Science
Thinking
I Belonged To A Small Minority Of Boys Who Were Lacking In Physical Strength And Athletic Prowess. ... We Found Our Refuge In Science. ... We Learned That Science Is A Revenge Of Victims Against Oppressors, That Science Is A Territory Of Freedom And Friendship In The Midst Of Tyranny And Hatred.
Revenge
Science
Boys
Atoms Are Weird Stuff, Behaving Like Active Agents Rather Than Inert Substances. They Make Unpredictable Choices Between Alternative Possibilities According To The Laws Of Quantum Mechanics. It Appears That Mind, As Manifested By The Capacity To Make Choices, Is To Some Extent Inherent In Every Atom. The Universe Is Also Weird, With Its Laws Of Nature That Make It Hospitable To The Growth Of Mind. I Do Not Make Any Clear Distinction Between Mind And God. God Is What Mind Becomes When It Passes Beyond The Scale Of Our Comprehension.
Law
Choices
Mind
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.
Science
Voice
Giving
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.
Beautiful
London
Thames
We Have These Amazing Gifts Of Music And Mathematics And Painting And Olympic Running. I Mean, We're The Animal That Is Best Of All The Animals At Long-distance Running. Why? It Is Quite Amazing. Superfluous Gifts You Don't Really Need To Survive.
Running
Distance
Mean
It Is Characteristic Of All Deep Human Problems That They Are Not To Be Approached Without Some Humor And Some Bewilderment.
Humor
Problem
Characteristics
I'm Prejudiced About Education Altogether. I Think It's Terribly Overrated.
Thinking
Overrated
Mathematics Is Really An Art, Not A Science.
Art
Mathematics
The Glory Of Science Is To Imagine More Than We Can Prove.
Imagine
Glory
Prove
Of Course, Long-distance Running Has To Do With The Fact That We're Hunters.
Running
Distance
Long
There Is Nothing So Big Nor So Crazy That One Out Of A Million Technological Societies May Not Feel Itself Driven To Do, Provided It Is Physically Possible.
Crazy
May
Driven
Biology Is Now Bigger Than Physics, As Measured By The Size Of Budgets, By The Size Of The Workforce, Or By The Output Of Major Discoveries; And Biology Is Likely To Remain The Biggest Part Of Science Through The Twenty-first Century.
Discovery
Firsts
Size
It's As Great A Part Of The Human Adventure To Invent Things As To Understand Them. John Randall Wasn't A Great Scientist, But He Was A Great Inventor. There's Been Lots More Like Him, And It's A Shame They Don't Get Nobel Prizes.
Adventure
Shame
Scientist
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.
War
Mean
Nuclear
The Pain Of Childbirth Is Not Remembered. It's The Child That's Remembered.
Children
Pain
Childbirth
From My Childhood It Has Been My Conviction That Men Would Reach The Planets In My Lifetime . . . This Conviction . . . Rests On Two Beliefs, One Scientific And One Political: (1) There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth Than Are Dreamed Of In Our Present-day Science. And We Shall Only Find Out What They Are If We Go Out And Look For Them. (2) It Is In The Long Run Essential To The Growth Of Any New And High Civilization That Small Groups Of People Can Escape From Their Neighbors And From Their Governments, To Go And Live As They Please In The Wilderness.
Running
Men
Civilization
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
Global Warming
Opportunist
So Long As You Have Courage And A Sense Of Humor, It Is Never Too Late To Start Life Afresh.
Life
Courage
Humor
Life Is Nature's Way To Give Mind Oportunities It Wouldn't Otherwise Had.
Life
Nature
Giving
The Thing That Makes Me Most Optimistic Is China And India - Both Of Them Doing Well. 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.
Optimistic
Progress
The Key To Having An Interesting Life Is To Always Say "yes" To Anything Crazy.
Crazy
Keys
Interesting
I Am Hoping That The Scientists And Politicians Who Have Been Blindly Demonizing Carbon Dioxide For 37 Years Will One Day Open Their Eyes And Look At The Evidence.
Eye
Years
One Day
Everything In My Life Was Luck. The Key To Having An Interesting Life Is To Always Say "yes" To Anything Crazy.
Crazy
Interesting
Luck
All Stable Processes We Shall Predict. All Unstable Processes We Shall Control. Describing John Von Neumann's Aspiration For The Application Of Computers Sufficiently Large To Solve The Problems Of Meteorology, Despite The Sensitivity Of The Weather To Small Perturbations.
Science
Weather
Meteorology
The Ground Of Science Was Littered With The Corpses Of Dead Unified Theories.
Theory
Corpses
Unified
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.
Twenties
Firsts
Physics
Aviation Is The Branch Of Engineering That Is Least Forgiving Of Mistakes.
Mistake
Engineering
Forgiving
As Finite Creatures Who Think And Feel, We Can Create Islands Of Meaning In The Sea Of Information.
Thinking
Islands
Sea
In The Long Run, The Only Solution I See To The Problem Of Diversity Is The Expansion Of Mankind Into The Universe By Means Of Green Technology... Green Technology Means We Do Not Live In Cans But Adapt Our Plants And Our Animals And Ourselves To Live Wild In The Universe As We Find It... When Life Invades A New Habitat, She Never Moves With A Single Species. She Comes With A Variety Of Species, And As Soon As She Is Established, Her Species Spread And Diversify Further. Our Spread Through The Galaxy Will Follow Her Ancient Pattern.
Running
Moving
Mean
Science Is Not A Collection Of Truths. It Is A Continuing Exploration Of Mysteries.
Mystery
Exploration
Continuing
The Ph.d. System Was Designed For A Job In Academics. And It Works Really Well If You Really Want To Be An Academic, And The System Actually Works Quite Well. So For People Who Have The Gift And Like To Go Spend Their Lives As Scholars, It's Fine. But The Trouble Is That It's Become A Kind Of A Meal Ticket - You Can't Get A Job If You Don't Have A Ph.d.
Jobs
People
Meals
I Think The Biggest Misconception Is That Everybody Has To Learn Mathematics. That Seems To Be A Complete Mistake.
Mistake
Thinking
Mathematics
That Was The Wonderful Thing About Ramanujan. He Discovered So Much, And Yet He Left So Much More In His Garden For Other People To Discover.
Garden
People
Ramanujan
One Factor That Has Remained Constant Through All The Twists And Turns Of The History Of Physical Science Is The Decisive Importance Of The Mathematical Imagination.
Education
Science
Imagination
When World War Ii Came Along, Which Was When I Was A Teenager, We All Expected We Would Have Anthrax Bombs And This Kind Of Stuff. We Thought It Would Be A Biological War. Fortunately It Wasn't And, But It's Because The Danger Is Still There And By Some Miracle We Escaped All That, So You Never Can Tell What It Going To Happen, But Biology Certainly Could Be Even Worse Than Physics And Chemistry.
War
Teenager
Miracle
The Reason Why New Concepts In Any Branch Of Science Are Hard To Grasp Is Always The Same; Contemporary Scientists Try To Picture The New Concept In Terms Of Ideas Which Existed Before.
Science
Ideas
Trying
Almost Everything About The Universe Is Astounding. I Think The Most Amazing Thing Is How Gifted We Are - We Are Only Monkeys Who Came Down From The Trees Just Recently. We Have These Amazing Gifts Of Music And Mathematics And Painting And Olympic Running.
Running
Thinking
Tree
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.
Life
Mother
Art
The Public Knows That Human Beings Are Fallible. Only People Blinded By Ideology Fall Into The Trap Of Believing In Their Own Infallibility.
Believe
Fall
People
Computer Models Of The Climate....[are] A Very Dubious Business If You Don't Have Good Inputs.
Dubious
Climate
Input
The Whole Point Of Science Is That Most Of It Is Uncertain. That's Why Science Is Exciting--because We Don't Know. Science Is All About Things We Don't Understand. The Public, Of Course, Imagines Science Is Just A Set Of Facts. But It's Not. Science Is A Process Of Exploring, Which Is Always Partial. We Explore, And We Find Out Things That We Understand. We Find Out Things We Thought We Understood Were Wrong. That's How It Makes Progress.
Progress
Facts
Imagine
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.
Art
Strong
Talking
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.
Mean
Math
Justice
We Should Try To Introduce Our Children To Science Today As A Rebellion Against Poverty And Ugliness And Militarism And Economic Injustice.
Children
Trying
Today
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.
Jobs
Numbers
Average
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. But, In My View, This Whole Field Is Based On A Misconception. I Think The Brain Is Analog, Whereas The Machines Are Digital. They Really Are Different. So I Think That What The Machines Can Do, Of Course, Is Wonderful, But It's Not The Same As What The Brain Can Do.
Thinking
People
Brain
Progress In Science Is Often Built On Wrong Theories That Are Later Corrected. It Is Better To Be Wrong Than To Be Vague.
Progress
Theory
Built
It's Us That's Really Amazing.
Really Amazing
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.
Beautiful
Country
Tree
The Idea That God May Be Approached And Understood Through Intellectual Analysis Is Uniquely Christian... It Is Probably Not An Accident That Modern Science Grew Explosively In Christian Europe And Left The Rest Of The World Behind.
Christian
Europe
Ideas
Ethical Progress Is The Only Cure For The Damage Done By Scientific Progress.
Progress
Done
Damage
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.
Majority
Minorities
Global Warming
Lucky Individuals In Each Generation Find Technology Appropriate To Their Needs.
Technology
Lucky
Needs
The Essential Fact Which Emerges ... Is That The Three Smallest And Most Active Reservoirs ( Of Carbon In The Global Carbon Cycle), The Atmosphere, The Plants And The Soil, Are All Of Roughly The Same Size. This Means That Large Human Disturbance Of Any One Of These Reservoirs Will Have Large Effects On All Three. We Cannot Hope Either To Understand Or To Manage The Carbon In The Atmosphere Unless We Understand And Manage The Trees And The Soil Too.
Mean
Science
Carbon Cycle
The Thing That Makes Me Most Optimistic Is China And India - Both Of Them Doing Well.
Optimistic
India
China
I Grew Up In England At A Time When England Was Winning Nobel Prizes Right And Left. I Mean It Was Amazing How Many Nobel Prizes England Was Winning In Chemistry And Physics And Biology And All The Sciences And At That Time The Teaching Of Science In The Schools Was Really Lousy.
Teaching
School
Mean
To Give Us Room To Explore The Varieties Of Mind And Body Into Which Our Genome Can Evolve, One Planet Is Not Enough.
Giving
Mind
Body
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.
Eye
Thinking
Hands
If We Had A Reliable Way To Label Our Toys Good And Bad, It Would Be Easy To Regulate Technology Wisely. But We Can Rarely See Far Enough Ahead To Know Which Road Leads To Damnation. Whoever Concerns Himself With Big Technology, Either To Push It Forward Or To Stop It, Is Gambling In Human Lives.
Technology
Gambling
Damnation
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.
Thinking
People
Progress
We Have No Reason To Think That Climate Change Is Harmful If You Look At The World As A Whole. Most Places, In Fact, Are Better Off Being Warmer Than Being Colder. And Historically, The Really Bad Times For The Environment And For People Have Been The Cold Periods Rather Than The Warm Periods.
Thinking
People
Facts
The Technologies Which Have Had The Most Profound Effects On Human Life Are Usually Simple.
Technology
Simple
Medieval Europe
We Won't Really Understand The Brain Until We Can Make Models Of It Which Are Analog Rather Than Digital, Which Nobody Seems To Be Trying Very Much.
Brain
Trying
Digital
Do Not Imagine That You Have To Know Everything Before You Can Do Anything. My Own Best Work Was Done When I Was Most Ignorant.
Ignorant
Done
Imagine
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.
Order
Structure
Increase
Boiled Down To One Sentence, My Message Is The Unboundedness Of Life And The Unboundedness Of Human Destiny.
Inspirational
Life
Destiny
Everything In My Life Was Luck.
Luck
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. And That, By Some Miracle, 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.
Real
Miracle
Luck
The Great Advances In Science Usually Result From New Tools Rather Than From New Doctrines.
Science
Doctrine
Tools
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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