Common Quote by David Deutsch Download Open image “Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.” — David Deutsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common sense
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
An Ounce Of Common Sense Is Worth A Pound Of Theory; A Practical Common Sense Approach Is Often Far More Effective Than Abstract Theorizing. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“an unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.” — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
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,… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and political philosophy,… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
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… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“To interpret dots in the sky as white-hot, million-kilometre spheres, one must first have thought of the idea of such spheres. And then one… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image