[Unedited] Freeman Dyson with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Albert Einstein’s quip that “God does not play dice with the universe,” was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder the relationship between science and religion and his sense of “the order deeply hidden behind everything.” With guests Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies we explore Einstein’s wisdom on mystery, eternity, and the mind of God. See more at onbeing.org/program/einsteins-god/90

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cuts.
0:01.9	I'm Krista Tippett, you're listening
0:03.5	to my Unedited Conversation with Freeman Dyson.
0:06.3	He's a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus
0:09.5	at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
0:12.9	I spoke with him on November 3rd, 2005,
0:15.7	from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:18.4	He was in the studios of WBUR and Boston, Massachusetts.
0:22.5	This interview is included in our show, Einstein's God.
0:25.9	Download the MP3 of the Produced Show at onbearing.org.
0:31.0	I believe that you didn't know Einstein personally, is that right?
0:34.7	Right.
0:35.9	But I'm very intrigued.
0:38.2	I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks
0:40.6	reading him and reading you.
0:43.8	And there are a lot of parallels between the paths you took
0:48.7	and the things that interested you and that you worked.
0:50.9	And I want to trace that because I think
0:55.7	that from what I read, understanding how you think may also
1:02.7	give us sort of, we give 21st century lay people who just
1:08.5	want to grasp some of this, some sense of how Einstein thought
1:13.6	and saw the world and how his ideas affected the world
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