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 complexitydeepexplanation share on social
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. David Deutsch collaborationcomputationdistinctively Change image and share on social
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. David Deutsch centralitycosmichitch Change image and share on social
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. David Deutsch archdayeventually share on social
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 computationdeeplaw Change image and share on social
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. David Deutsch dropexplanationfail Change image and share on social
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 derivegoodgroup Change image and share on social
Is the human race a universal constructor? David Deutsch constructorhumanrace Change image and share on social
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch commonmakesense Change image and share on social
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. David Deutsch badexperimentalexplanation Change image and share on social
