It was a sad day for the world in February, as it lost a great scientist and humanist. Unlike others who adapted a bird’s-eye perspective to look at the various fields of the sciences, he came to be a frog who enjoyed “ jumping from pool to pool, studying their details deeply in the mud.”
The bird’s-eye perspective was not for him, and he had a lifelong suspicion of grand unified theories.
On February 28, 2020, 96-year-old Freeman Dyson passed away. But while he may no longer be around the world, his ideas will still linger.
Find out more about Freeman Dyson’s life over at Quanta Magazine.
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