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Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel. Frank Tipler

Travel Natural People Space Will Unlikely Exceedingly Environment Advantage Over Human Engage Beings Ever Present-Day

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis? Frank Tipler

Life Beautiful Ugly Correct Adopt More Physicists Hypothesis Know Likely Least Than Eternal Eternal Life Working Why Why Not

What you can show using physics, forces this universe to continue to exist. As long as you're using general relativity and quantum mechanics you are forced to conclude that God exists. Frank Tipler

God You Physics Long Universe Relativity General General Relativity Forced Forces Quantum Conclude Quantum Mechanics Continue Exist Exists Show Using Mechanics

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova. Frederic Joliot-Curie

In England and the United States, where physicists have at their disposal equipment of very high voltages, several new elements were prepared using protons and deuterons as projectiles. Frederic Joliot-Curie

Several States High Physicists New Equipment Were Very Where England Using Prepared Disposal Elements United United States

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known. Frederick Reines

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. Frederick Reines

Me Technology School Enthusiasm Changed Entered Admission Had Institute Course However His Encounter Impressed Erudition Officer Who Chance

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. Frederick Reines

First Astronomy Properties River Ray Attention Study Soon Began Site Experiments While Turned Gamma Series Savannah

Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories. Frederick Reines

Group Flux Cosmic Ray Most Underground Operation Became Reduction Order Experiments Expert Successful Required Deep Necessarily

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. Frederick Reines

Time Other Intriguing Some Objects Area Investigation Attention Over Ideas Devoted Been Years Effort Experimental Inherent Exploring Number

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. Freeman Dyson

Time You Natural Ocean Melting Bad See Something Glaciers Part Pictures Know Because Least Falling Been Years Just Just Because Anything Happening Happens Mean Cycle Measurements Things

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

Life Simple Had Most Effects Human Which Human Life Technologies Profound

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

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. Freeman Dyson

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. Freeman Dyson

Government Needs Technology World Power Fusion Small Except Could Price Leading Nobody Make Source Existing Huge Afford Where Centralized Flexible Electricity Compact Program Needed

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. Freeman Dyson

Together Science World Language Club Member Both Tie Accepted Been Common Nationality Being Literature Race Mankind Much Doubly Across International Barriers Helping Lucky Each

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. Freeman Dyson

Job Marketplace Fail Practical Judges Effectiveness Whether Succeed Designed Technologies

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Freeman Dyson

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

Needs Technology Generation Appropriate Find Individuals Lucky Each Each Generation

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

Day Freedom Every Day People Every Talk Want Bright

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. Freeman Dyson

Mathematics People Problems Other Find Ideas Look Around Math Mathematician Where Really Useful Applications Basically

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