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David Deutsch Quotes

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
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Birth: 1953

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Brain Understanding Fall Wrong Kind

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Rich Powerful Poor Cannot Punished

In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.

John Montgomery Ward

Sports Baseball Effort American Boy

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Stephen Hawking

History Great Time Book Understand

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Change Beautiful City Homeless You

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

People Difference Audience Sing He

The Internet snark has zero effect on me.

Me Internet Zero Effect

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Great Art People Appreciate I Can

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

Health Care Insurance Will Cost Act

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

You Go Want See Psychiatrist

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

Fun Blind Better You Burn First

Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.

Work Hard Work Dog Good Motivation

My investments have been hurt.

Hurt Been Investments

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