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Freeman Dyson (#301)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Deep Thinker, the Problem Solver

I wonder if in some ways you were influenced by Arthur C. Clarke, who is of course the namesake of this organization that we're a part of. And I wonder, has this capacity for spanning the very small to the very large just come naturally to you? Yes, I mean, I have a short attention span. I like to jump around from one thing to another. So that's just my temperament. And so it means I don't generally think deep thoughts. I'm usually just listening to the latest gossip and that's what I mostly do. There really are two kinds of scientists, the deep thinkers and the problem solvers, and the deep thinkers of course are the most important

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