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Time travel may be achieved o...

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

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Like every other destruction ...

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

Our best theories are not onl...

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

David Deutsch 24 quotes

I chop and change between wha...

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

No precautions, and no precau...

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

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Feeling insignificant because...

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

The theory that the biosphere...

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

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Humans may or may not have co...

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

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Quantum computation is... a d...

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

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The overwhelming majority of ...

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

The whole [scientific] proces...

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

I myself believe that there w...

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

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To me quantum computation is ...

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

Our best theories are not onl...

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

Is the human race a universal...

Is the human race a universal constructor?

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The most important applicatio...

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

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It is possible to build a vir...

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

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Science is objective. And in ...

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

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I don't think it would be a g...

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

The truly privileged theories...

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

David Deutsch 24 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....