"Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has……" — David Deutsch
"Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow."
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28 Quotes by David Deutsch
David Deutsch has 28 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional…
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Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been…
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The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a…
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Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars,…
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on…
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If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
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Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description…
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Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.
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More Cow Quotes
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they…
— Winston Churchill
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
— Hank Aaron
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"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you"
— Lil Wayne
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Kiss till the cow comes home.
— Francis Beaumont
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
— Winston Churchill
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's…
— Charles Saatchi
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation,…
— Satish Kumar
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