Freeman Dyson

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Dyson, Freeman Filmography

2001: The Science of Futures Past
2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
Cool It
2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
Dr. Teller's Very Large Bomb
2006, role: actor
To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
2001 and Beyond
2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker
1999, role: miscellaneous crew
Life Beyond Earth
1998, role: actor
Een schitterend ongeluk
1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
The Day After Trinity
1981, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Freeman Dyson:

"Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again."

"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."

"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."

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

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"

"Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them."

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

"Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs."

"I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day."

"The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared."

"The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs."

"The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models."

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

"It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe."

Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future: Interactive Video

Duration: 21:16
Updated: 18 Jul 2014

The celebrated physicist forecasts what the next 50 years will hold. Choose the sections you want to watch by clicking subjects on the video's menu screen.

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Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

Duration: 55:48
Updated: 08 Aug 2013

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University delivers a lecture entitled, Living Through Four Revolutions. Dyson discusses Space Technology, Nuc...

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Freeman Dyson: Is a Graviton Detectable?

Duration: 48:14
Updated: 11 Jan 2014

Invited talk at the Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 26-29 August 2013 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/upcomingevents/FMDS/Pages/default.aspx Publication: Is a graviton detectable? Freeman Dyson, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A, 28, 1330041 (2013) http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217751X1330041X

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Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson

Duration: 38:39
Updated: 15 Aug 2013

A conversation with the physicist and writer.

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Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

Duration: 61:37
Updated: 14 Aug 2013

Freeman Dyson with dry wit and self-effacing good humor explains that by heretical he means ideas that go against prevailing dogmas, and that in his self-app...

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Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system

Duration: 20:38
Updated: 06 Aug 2013

http://www.ted.com Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the O...

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Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 1of2 Bogus Climate Models

Duration: 6:34
Updated: 17 Jun 2014

A prominent scientist who's followed the science of global warming from the beginning, Dyson explains why climate models have no scientific merit, why averag...

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Een schitterend ongeluk (A Glorious Accident) 5/7 Freeman Dyson

Duration: 106:56
Updated: 29 Jun 2013

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Freeman Dyson - Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From

Duration: 4:19
Updated: 25 Jun 2014

For more videos on the laws of nature, please visit http://www.closertotruth.com/topics/cosmos/deep-laws-nature For more on information on Freeman Dyson, please visit http://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/freeman-dyson/profile

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Freeman Dyson posits "QM cannot be a complete description of nature" @ J.A. Wheeler's 90th birthday

Duration: 33:07
Updated: 06 Mar 2014

Delivered at the Science and Ultimate Reality symposium in Princeton, March 2002: http://www.metanexus.net/archive/ultimate_reality/present.htm

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Freeman J. Dyson: Life, Religion, Trade, Mathematics (1/5)

Duration: 9:55
Updated: 13 May 2013

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. -David Hilbert -

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"Four Revolutions and More to Come"

Duration: 68:20
Updated: 31 Mar 2014

Eminent theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson delivered a lecture on Mar. 27, 2014 on the Vanderbilt campus titled "Four Revolutions and More to Come." Dyson, who was born in 1923, is famous for his contributions to astronomy, nuclear engineering, quantum- and solid-state physics. He has captured the public imagination with concepts such as the Dyson sphere -- an artificial structure built around a star to capture its available energy and the Dyson tree -- a genetically engineered plant capable of growing on a comet. "I was lucky to be a student just at the beginning of four revolutions that happened at the same time: space, nuclear energy, the genome and computing," he states. "I see two new revolutions coming in neurology and paleontology...each of them will have profound effects and will open big opportunities." To learn more about Vanderbilt, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu.

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Freeman Dyson: The seminar series: convincing Oppenheimer

Duration: 4:07
Updated: 13 Jan 2014

This short film is a copyright of People's Archive. Send me a message if you have to report an infringement. Physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, renowned for his work on quantum electrodynamics, talks about the difficulty he had convincing Robert Oppenheimer to take Richard Feynmans ideas seriously.

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A road trip (and a night in a brothel!) with Richard Feynman

Duration: 2:28
Updated: 09 Aug 2013

From WebOfStories.com, Freeman Dyson, mathematician and theoretical physicist, tells how he was lucky enough to drive across the USA with Richard Feynman in ...

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Prof Freeman Dyson | Are Brains Analogue or Digital? | Univeristy College Dublin

Duration: 50:41
Updated: 26 May 2014

Abstract: We know that creatures like us have two separate systems for processing information, the genome and the brain. We know that the genome is digital, and we can accurately transcribe our genomes onto digital machines. We cannot transcribe our brains, and the processing of information in our brains is still a great mystery. I will be talking about real brains and real people, asking a question that will have practical consequences when we are able to answer it. I am not able to answer it now. All I can do is to examine the evidence and explain why I consider it probable that the answer will be that brains are analog. Prof Freeman Dyson | "Are Brains Analogue or Digital?" | 19th May 2014 - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Statutory Public Lecture of the School of Theoretical Physics, in association with the UCD School of Physics. ***** Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: http://www.dias.ie UCD School of Physics: http://www.ucd.ie/physics UCD: http://www.ucd.ie UCD Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ucddublin UCD Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/ucddublin UCD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ucdlife UCD Google+: https://plus.google.com/+universitycollegedublin

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Freeman Dyson: Climate Change Predictions Are "Absurd"

Duration: 3:23
Updated: 01 Aug 2013

"We don't only have to worry about warming," the physicist argues. "It could very well be the climate gets colder. Nobody knows"—and we waste time arguing wh...

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Freeman Dyson - Noah's Ark Eggs and Warm-Blooded Plants

Duration: 34:05
Updated: 05 Aug 2013

Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, present...

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Freeman Dyson: A Global Warming Heretic & Denier

Duration: 14:43
Updated: 10 Feb 2014

Deniers/Heretics like Freeman Dyson, should get the death penalty according to an Australian-born Professor, Richard Parncutt; "The death penalty is barbaric, racist, expensive, and is often applied by mistake." However, Parncutt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parncutt) states; "The death penalty is an appropriate punishment for influential Global Warming deniers. Global Warming deniers fall into a completely different category from (mass murderer of children) Behring Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate." However, convicted persons who "publicly repent" would be spared the death penalty. But, he says; "Some global warming deniers would never admit their mistake and as a result they would be executed." Parncutt says we should start with the 269 prominent deniers (most of them scientists) listed on the Desmogblog website; http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of "most brilliant physicist on the planet." Dyson has filled it. So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn't come along with it. The reason he's a skeptic is simple. "I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic," Dyson said. Then in the late 1970s, he got involved with early research on climate change at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn. That research, which involved scientists from many disciplines, was based on experimentation. The scientists studied such questions as how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with plant life and the role of clouds in warming. But that approach lost out to the computer-modeling approach favored by climate scientists. And that approach was flawed from the beginning, Dyson said. "I just think they don't understand the climate," he said of climatologists. "Their computer models are full of fudge factors." A major fudge factor concerns the role of clouds. The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide on its own is limited. To get to the apocalyptic projections trumpeted by Al Gore and company, the models have to include assumptions that CO-2 will cause clouds to form in a way that produces more warming. "The models are extremely oversimplified," Dyson said. "They don't represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds." Dyson said his skepticism about those computer models was borne out by recent reports of a study by Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading in Great Britain that showed global temperatures were flat between 2000 and 2010 — even though we humans poured record amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere during that decade. That was vindication for a man who was termed "a civil heretic" in a New York Times Magazine article on his contrarian views. Dyson embraces that label, with its implication that what he opposes is a religious movement. So does his fellow Princeton physicist and fellow skeptic, William Happer. "There are people who just need a cause that's bigger than themselves," said Happer. "Then they can feel virtuous and say other people are not virtuous." To show how uncivil this crowd can get, Happer e-mailed me an article about an Australian professor who proposes — quite seriously — the death penalty for heretics such as Dyson. As did Galileo, they can get a reprieve if they recant. I hope that guy never gets to hear Dyson's most heretical assertion: Atmospheric CO2 may actually be improving the environment. "It's certainly true that carbon dioxide is good for vegetation," Dyson said. "About 15 percent of agricultural yields are due to CO2 we put in the atmosphere. From that point of view, it's a real plus to burn coal and oil." In fact, there's more solid evidence for the beneficial effects of CO2 than the negative effects, Dyson said. So why does the public hear only one side of this debate? "Because the media do an awful job of reporting it." "They're absolutely lousy," he said of American journalists. "That's true also in Europe. I don't know why they've been brainwashed."

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FREEMAN DYSON - THE HERETIC

Duration: 11:42
Updated: 14 Sep 2013

Freeman Dyson ma w sobie coś z mistrza Yody. I nie chodzi o wiek - choć urodziwszy się w 1923 r. jest nieco tylko młodszy od 900-letniego Jedi. Chodzi przede wszystkim o zestaw cech, które czynią zeń prawdopodobnie najbarwniejszą postać świata współczesnej nauki (i nie tylko). Urodzony w Wielkiej Brytanii, od lat żyjący w Ameryce, Dyson to urodzony heretyk, który czasem dla sportu, ale zwykle dla dobra nauki kwestionuje wszelkie ortodoksyjne opinie. Łączy elementy wyrafinowanego a zarazem wywrotowego humoru rodaków Szekspira oraz amerykańskiego braku skrępowania konwenansami. Mawia (w duchu sokratejskim), że lepiej się pomylić, niż być nijakim. Rozmowa - w tygodniku POLITYKA: polityka.pl/nauka/wszechswiat/1513882,1,o-przyszlosci-nauki-ziemi-i-ludzi.read

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Conversation with Freeman Dyson

Duration: 20:25
Updated: 03 Mar 2013

Templeton Prize 2000, Gifford Lectures 1985 British Academy, 1 June 2012.

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Freeman Dyson: Nukes and Genomes

Duration: 57:56
Updated: 07 Aug 2013

Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson joins Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union-Tribune for a conversation on genomes, global warming, nuclear weapons and the futu...

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Busquemos vida en el Sistema Solar Exterior 1/2 HQ: Freeman Dyson en TED 2003

Duration: 10:37
Updated: 01 Nov 2012

Freeman Dyson, físico y matemático ingles. Es reconocido internacionalmente por su trabajo en mecánica cuántica, física del estado sólido e ingeniería nuclea...

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IMSA Great Minds Program - An Afternoon With Freeman Dyson

Duration: 41:29
Updated: 02 Jul 2013

IMSA Great Minds Program - An Afternoon With Freeman Dyson October 3, 2002.

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Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 2of2 Stratospheric Cooling

Duration: 4:10
Updated: 29 Jul 2013

A prominent scientist who's followed the science of global warming from the beginning, Dyson explains why climate models have no scientific merit, why averag...

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Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 6

Duration: 10:21
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson Interview part4

Duration: 11:49
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 3

Duration: 8:16
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 5

Duration: 10:00
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 1

Duration: 9:58
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 2

Duration: 10:15
Updated: 11 Oct 2011

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Freeman Dyson on radicalism, revolution in science

Duration: 71:27
Updated: 14 Jul 2013

"Scientific discoveries come from people thinking thoughts that have never been thought before or people using experimental tools that have not been used bef...

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Swiss parliament secretary tweets naked truth to 11 000

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07 Aug 2014

A secretary who posted nude pictures of herself in the Swiss parliament to more than 11 000 followers on Twitter told a newspaper yesterday she did not believe she had broken any rules ... The report did not say why she had posted them ... – Reuters. ....(size: 1.3Kb)

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A Navajo-Palestinian Tapestry of Liberation

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08 Aug 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Even though we don't have much, we still have compassion. And that we can afford." -Navajo presidential contender Moroni Benally in support of Palestinians ... Government and Army participated in exterminating Native Americans, attacking not only warriors but entire tribes and destroying villages. Neither were women and children spared, often massacred ... Like Sheridan, some Israeli and U.S ... 292....(size: 7.4Kb)

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Gaza rockets hit southern Israel as truce unravels

The Hindu

08 Aug 2014

Two rockets fired by Gaza militants slammed into southern Israel before dawn today, as a 72-hour truce appeared to be reaching an end. And two senior Hamas officials said the Palestinian militant movement would not extend a 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza that expires at 0500 GMT today, accusing Israel of rejecting their demands for a truce ... Israel had said earlier it was ready to “indefinitely” extend the ceasefire....(size: 2.9Kb)

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Ebola Outbreak Is A Public Health Emergency

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08 Aug 2014

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. The WHO announced the Ebola outbreak — the largest and longest in history — is worrying enough to merit being declared an international health emergency ... The WHO chief, Dr ... On Thursday, CDC director Dr ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)

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Dyson Serendipity

Huffington Post

28 Jul 2014

Freeman Dyson has one of my source minds. He as a physicist occupies Einstein's chair at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He is now 91 years old (young) ... Freeman has done much to enlarge my, our, realm ... Freeman was very welcoming and warm and cordial and he indulged my chatter between his chattering teeth ... We were there ... She wasn't, so I'm left to reflect back on that cold, dark encounter that I had with Freeman Dyson ... Dyson,F ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)

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Opening Remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (The Heartland Institute)

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08 Jul 2014

(Source. The Heartland Institute) Jim Lakely. LAS VEGAS - Below are the prepared remarks by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast to open the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on the evening of July 7, 2014 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The conference runs from 7.45 p.m. PDT tonight until 4 p.m ... ------ ... And ... Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Sherwood Idso, Richard Lindzen, and Freeman Dyson, are global warming skeptics....(size: 11.7Kb)

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What if God were part of the natural order?

The Irish Times

19 Jun 2014

I recently came across an interesting book called What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (2006), edited by John Brockman. The book is a collection of “dangerous” ideas proposed by 108 of today’s leading thinkers (including physicists Freeman Dyson, Lee Smolin, Paul Davies, Frank Tipler, philosopher Daniel Dennett and biochemist Craig Venter), with a preface by Steven Pinker and an afterword by Richard Dawkins ... Kosslyn’s dangerous idea is ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)

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Life on the Billionth Rock from the Sun

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09 Jun 2014

I've always regarded asteroids as somewhat like dinosaurs. mildly interesting and faintly dangerous. But I'm now thinking that they might be a profitable real estate investment ... That's why we should study asteroids, from the science point of view ... they're dangerous ... True, there's not much sunlight where the comets are, but physicist Freeman Dyson has suggested that big, easily built mirrors could shine a little light on cometary colonies....(size: 5.5Kb)

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Esther Dyson: Breaking through tech’s glass ceiling

BBC News

27 May 2014

Esther Dyson has been called "the most influential woman in all the computer world" ... Dyson leaps up to welcome a visitor to a New York office on a spring morning ... Bill Gates towers above influential women, says Dyson, shown with him in 1984 ... "For the longest time I was the youngest," says Dyson ... She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where her father, Freeman Dyson, was a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study....(size: 8.1Kb)

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How do you build a city in space?

The Guardian

16 May 2014

After swingeing budget cuts at Nasa, a loose agglomeration of private companies – including Elon Musk's SpaceX – have revived the dormant dream of colonising other worlds. • A cosy little house on Mars? Cities in space – in pictures. It's a hell of a town ... Illustration ... Encouraged by fellow physicists Freeman Dyson and Richard Feynman, he posited a "planar cluster" housing four billion people across 30,000km of space ... Their motto ... ....(size: 15.3Kb)

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‘We are on the wrong track with artificial intelligence’

The Irish Times

15 May 2014

It is likely that the brain is an analogue system and computer scientists are trying to imitate its workings using digital machines, says Prof Freeman Dyson, an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey ... Dyson is sometimes referred to as the scientist who took over from Albert Einstein at Princeton, although he is modest about his various mathematical accomplishments....(size: 3.2Kb)

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Chicken Little "Science"

Real Clear Politics

18 Apr 2014

What to do? Why shout louder, of course ... The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer, writes, “If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing? And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today’s climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken? … Climate-change proponents have made their cause a matter of fealty and faith ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)

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Science History Writer to Discuss Digital/Analog Connection Wednesday (University of Virginia)

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08 Apr 2014

Son of the renowned physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, George Dyson is a writer of science history. His 2012 best-seller, "Turing's Cathedral," describes the personalities, engineering and social ......(size: 1.1Kb)

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New scientific revolutions subject of talk by eminent physicist Freeman DysonMarch 6, 2014 (Vanderbilt University)

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07 Mar 2014

Vanderbilt University) New scientific revolutions subject of talk by eminent physicist Freeman Dyson ... The eminent theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson will give a free public lecture on the Vanderbilt campus ... Dyson, who was born in 1923, is famous for his contributions to astronomy, nuclear engineering, quantum- and solid-state physics....(size: 1.6Kb)

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Researchers propose a new way to detect the elusive graviton (ASU - Arizona State University)

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04 Mar 2014

(Source ... Posted ... According to physicist Freeman Dyson, the sensitivity required to detect such a miniscule distance change caused by a graviton requires the mirrors to be so massive and heavy that they'd collapse and form a black hole ... "This may provide, if Freeman Dyson is correct about the fact that terrestrial detectors cannot detect gravitons, the only direct empirical verification of the existence of gravitons," Krauss said ... (noodl....(size: 4.9Kb)

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The Myths of Charles Krauthammer: The Drinking Game (Op-Ed)

Yahoo Daily News

26 Feb 2014

Mann contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices. Op-Ed & Insights ... Myth ... [The U.S ... [The physicist Freeman Dyson has impressive credentials in physics, but he is clearly beyond his depth in his forays into climate change. And despite Krauthammer's implications to the contrary, Dyson does not deny that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate.] ... [Sandy was an unprecedented storm meteorologically....(size: 5.7Kb)

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Who was Dario Castello?

The Examiner

25 Feb 2014

Indeed, the composer’s Wikipedia page states explicitly that there is no biographical information, meaning that even the dates of his birth and death are unknown ... Mark’s ... This was for a very good reason ... However, as Freeman Dyson has written in his contribution to the latest issue of The New York Review, coming up with an inventive theory is an important facet of the practice of science, even if that theory is subsequently falsified....(size: 3.9Kb)

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Freeman Dyson - Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From

Freeman Dyson posits "QM cannot be a complete description of nature" @ J.A. Wheeler's 90th birthday

Freeman J. Dyson: Life, Religion, Trade, Mathematics (1/5)

"Four Revolutions and More to Come"

Freeman Dyson: The seminar series: convincing Oppenheimer

A road trip (and a night in a brothel!) with Richard Feynman

'Freeman Dyson' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (1992)

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Dyson, Freeman Filmography

Famous quotes by Freeman Dyson:

"Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again."

"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."

"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."

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

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?"

"Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them."

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

"Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs."

"I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day."

"The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared."

"The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs."

"The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models."

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

"It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe."

Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future: Interactive Video

Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

Freeman Dyson: Is a Graviton Detectable?

Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system

Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 1of2 Bogus Climate Models

Een schitterend ongeluk (A Glorious Accident) 5/7 Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson - Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From

Freeman Dyson posits "QM cannot be a complete description of nature" @ J.A. Wheeler's 90th birthday

Freeman J. Dyson: Life, Religion, Trade, Mathematics (1/5)

"Four Revolutions and More to Come"

Freeman Dyson: The seminar series: convincing Oppenheimer

A road trip (and a night in a brothel!) with Richard Feynman

Prof Freeman Dyson | Are Brains Analogue or Digital? | Univeristy College Dublin

Freeman Dyson: Climate Change Predictions Are "Absurd"

Freeman Dyson - Noah's Ark Eggs and Warm-Blooded Plants

Freeman Dyson: A Global Warming Heretic & Denier

FREEMAN DYSON - THE HERETIC

Conversation with Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson: Nukes and Genomes

Busquemos vida en el Sistema Solar Exterior 1/2 HQ: Freeman Dyson en TED 2003

IMSA Great Minds Program - An Afternoon With Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson on Global Warming 2of2 Stratospheric Cooling

Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 6

Freeman Dyson Interview part4

Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 3

Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 5

Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 1

Freeman Dyson Interview at Hunter College - Part 2

Freeman Dyson on radicalism, revolution in science

Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future: Interactive Video

Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions

Freeman Dyson: Is a Graviton Detectable?

Big Think Interview With Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society

Freeman Dyson: Let's look for life in the outer solar system