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...Freeman Dyson's first book, Disturbing the Universe, has all the trappings of a commercial pounding: his famous name, sensational subject matter, characters from history books. But Dyson, who might have gotten away with a forgettable rehash, offers instead a captivating portrait of one of the formative minds of modern physics...
...meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist...
Last summer Ogden Reid, New York State Commissioner of Environmental Conservation, issued a warning against eating Hudson River stripers. He also initiated action against GE to force the company to reduce its discharges to zero by next September. He was opposed by State Commerce Commissioner John Dyson, who argued that forcing GE to meet such strict standards could force the plants to close and cost badly needed jobs. Meanwhile a state-appointed hearing officer has been taking testimony from both sides in the case. In a 77-page interim opinion issued last February, Professor Abraham Sofaer of Columbia Law School...
...does not rely on mathematical models or statistical samples. He is a comparative and historical sociologist who "makes sense of other people's data." His interest in religion, in fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual and academic quality of a professor at the institute." When Geertz challenged their credentials...
...looked at 'em an' 'e said I weren't goin'ter be but sixty-four...so I can't go, Lady Dyson," she said...