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… - Freeman Dyson

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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.

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About Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-born American physicist, mathematician, and futurist, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He was the winner of the Templeton Prize in the year 2000.

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Birth Name: Freeman John Dyson
Alternative Names: Freeman J. Dyson
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Much of the history of science, like the history of religion, is a history of struggles driven by power and money. And yet this is not the whole story. Genuine saints occasionally play an important role, both in religion and in science. Einstein was an important figure in the history of science, and he was a firm believer in transcendence. For Einstein, science as a way of escape from mundane reality was no pretense. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein, the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.

Duas vozes falam pelo futuro, a voz da ciência e a voz da religião. A ciência e a religião são dois grandes empreendimentos humanos, que perduram ao longo dos séculos e nos ligam a nossos descendentes. Sou um cientista e, ao tentar neste livro olhar para o futuro, falo com a voz da ciência. Descrevo o passado e o futuro conforme o ponto de vista científico que me é familiar. Mas não afirmo que a voz da ciência fale com uma autoridade singular e única. A religião tem, no mínimo, autoridade igual na definição do destino humano. A religião fica mais próxima do coração da natureza humana, e tem mais penetração do que a ciência. Como a natureza humana, a qual reflete. a religião é muitas vezes cruel e pervertida. Nas ocasiões em que a ciência atingiu poder igual ao poder da religião, também ela tornou-se cruel e pervertida.

The expansion of life, moving out from Earth into its inheritance, is an even greater theme than the expansion of England across the Atlantic. As Hakluyt wrote that there is under our noses the great and ample country of Virginia, I am saying that there is under our noses the territory of nine planets, forty moons, ten thousand asteroids and a trillion comets.

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