- Scientist | 1953 -
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
David Deutsch
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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 theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
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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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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.
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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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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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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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Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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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.
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