Precautionary Quotes by David Deutsch

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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…
• The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging…
• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes…
• The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or…
• Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
• Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by…
• Is the human race a universal constructor?
• It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
• Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
• Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective…
• If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
• Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature…

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