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宇宙波澜 : 科技与人类前途的自省
《宇宙波澜：科技与人类前途的自省》是一代量子力学巨擘弗里曼·戴森从事科学工作五十年以来的回忆，对科技与人类前途的浪漫的人文思考。
他把科学生活比作个人灵魂的航程，浪漫而生动地记述了许多著名科学家的风范与成就，原子炉、生命科技以及太空探索的研究历程与争议，同时由着作者的引导开始寻求科学对于人类的真正意义以及科学人在钻研探索时所应持的正确态度，还包括对科技发展与人类前途的一些深刻的省思。
他把科学生活比作个人灵魂的航程，浪漫而生动地记述了许多著名科学家的风范与成就，原子炉、生命科技以及太空探索的研究历程与争议，同时由着作者的引导开始寻求科学对于人类的真正意义以及科学人在钻研探索时所应持的正确态度，还包括对科技发展与人类前途的一些深刻的省思。
330 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2015
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Freeman Dyson
71 books392 followersFreeman Dyson was a physicist and educator best known for his speculative work on extraterrestrial civilizations and for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He theorized several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, Dyson tree, Dyson series, and Dyson sphere.
The son of a musician and composer, Dyson was educated at the University of Cambridge. As a teenager he developed a passion for mathematics, but his studies at Cambridge were interrupted in 1943, when he served in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command. He received a B.A. from Cambridge in 1945 and became a research fellow of Trinity College. In 1947 he went to the United States to study physics and spent the next two years at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and Princeton, where he studied under J. Robert Oppenheimer, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson returned to England in 1949 to become a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, but he was appointed professor of physics at Cornell in 1951 and two years later at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he became professor emeritus in 2000. He became a U.S. citizen in 1957.
The son of a musician and composer, Dyson was educated at the University of Cambridge. As a teenager he developed a passion for mathematics, but his studies at Cambridge were interrupted in 1943, when he served in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command. He received a B.A. from Cambridge in 1945 and became a research fellow of Trinity College. In 1947 he went to the United States to study physics and spent the next two years at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and Princeton, where he studied under J. Robert Oppenheimer, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson returned to England in 1949 to become a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, but he was appointed professor of physics at Cornell in 1951 and two years later at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he became professor emeritus in 2000. He became a U.S. citizen in 1957.
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April 23, 2021
有机会聆听一位才华横溢的科学家对于世界的看法，而且充满了真诚、自省和洞察，这段经历简直是太棒了。
September 27, 2024
A SERIES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTIONS, ALONG WITH HIS COMMENTARIES ON MANY SUBJECTS
Freeman John Dyson (born 1923) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering. He has written other popular books such as 'Infinite in All Directions' and 'The Scientist as Rebel.'
He wrote in the Preface to this 1979 book, "I have collected in this book memories extending over fifty years. I am well aware that memory is unreliable. It not only selects and rearranges the facts of our lives, but also embroiders and invents. I have checked my version of the facts wherever possible against other people's memories and against written documents. For thirty years I wrote home regularly to my parents, and they kept most of my letters. These letters are the source of many details which memory alone could not have preserved." (Pg. xi)
On national defense policy (remember that this book was written in 1979), he says, "Somewhere between the gospel of nonviolence and the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction there must be a middle ground on which reasonable people can stand, a ground which allows killing in self-defense but forbids the purposeless massacre of innocents. For forty years I have been searching for this middle ground. I do not claim that I have found it. But I think I know roughly where it lies. The ground on which I take my stand is a sharp moral distinction between ... offensive and defensive uses of all kinds of weapons." (Pg. 143)
He asserts, "I reject as worthless all attempts to calculate from theoretical principles the frequency of occurrence of intelligent life forms in the universe. Our ignorance of the chemical processes by which life arose on earth makes such calculations meaningless... Nevertheless, there are good scientific reasons to pursue the search for evidence if intelligence with some hope for a successful outcome." (Pg. 209) He observes, "So far as the biologists are concerned, the argument from design is dead. They won their battle. But unfortunately, in the bitterness of their victory over their clerical opponents, they have made the meaninglessness of the universe into a new dogma." (Pg. 247)
He summarizes, "I conclude from the existence of these accidents of physics and astronomy that the universe is an unexpectedly hospitable place for living creatures to make their home in. Being a scientist, trained in the habits of thought and language of the twentieth century rather than the eighteenth, I do not claim that the architecture of the universe is consistent with the hypothesis that mind plays an essential role in its functioning." (Pg. 251)
This wide-ranging book provides an excellent 'window" in the life and thought of this important scientist.
Freeman John Dyson (born 1923) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering. He has written other popular books such as 'Infinite in All Directions' and 'The Scientist as Rebel.'
He wrote in the Preface to this 1979 book, "I have collected in this book memories extending over fifty years. I am well aware that memory is unreliable. It not only selects and rearranges the facts of our lives, but also embroiders and invents. I have checked my version of the facts wherever possible against other people's memories and against written documents. For thirty years I wrote home regularly to my parents, and they kept most of my letters. These letters are the source of many details which memory alone could not have preserved." (Pg. xi)
On national defense policy (remember that this book was written in 1979), he says, "Somewhere between the gospel of nonviolence and the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction there must be a middle ground on which reasonable people can stand, a ground which allows killing in self-defense but forbids the purposeless massacre of innocents. For forty years I have been searching for this middle ground. I do not claim that I have found it. But I think I know roughly where it lies. The ground on which I take my stand is a sharp moral distinction between ... offensive and defensive uses of all kinds of weapons." (Pg. 143)
He asserts, "I reject as worthless all attempts to calculate from theoretical principles the frequency of occurrence of intelligent life forms in the universe. Our ignorance of the chemical processes by which life arose on earth makes such calculations meaningless... Nevertheless, there are good scientific reasons to pursue the search for evidence if intelligence with some hope for a successful outcome." (Pg. 209) He observes, "So far as the biologists are concerned, the argument from design is dead. They won their battle. But unfortunately, in the bitterness of their victory over their clerical opponents, they have made the meaninglessness of the universe into a new dogma." (Pg. 247)
He summarizes, "I conclude from the existence of these accidents of physics and astronomy that the universe is an unexpectedly hospitable place for living creatures to make their home in. Being a scientist, trained in the habits of thought and language of the twentieth century rather than the eighteenth, I do not claim that the architecture of the universe is consistent with the hypothesis that mind plays an essential role in its functioning." (Pg. 251)
This wide-ranging book provides an excellent 'window" in the life and thought of this important scientist.
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