David Deutsch Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: 1953

Topics

DeepestSizeHierarchyLevelScale

When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.

Jimmy Smits

PeopleDownComingUpSitSomething

My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.

Jenny McCarthy

DatingPhilosophyFartRightJust

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

John Garfield

LeaderHomeNew YorkGunAttention

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Michael Gerber

LearningCuriosityFreeLetting Go

Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.

Simon Van Booy

ChangeBlessingShoesFeetBattle

Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed.

Rob Van Dam

SocietyProfessionalWrestlingMafia

It is our job as always to focus on what we can control in the business.

Mickey Drexler

BusinessFocusJobControlAlways

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

Dimitri Payet

MyselfWorldComplicatedLiberty

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland

FailureConstructionBuildingBetter

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Bow Wow

WordsI AmHappyLovingHereEven

'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

Alice Ripley

SingingWorldFeelLongYouKnow

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Ryan Gosling

CharacterMyselfMeThinkSomeone

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