"The truly privileged theories are not the ones……" — David Deutsch
"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."
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28 Quotes by David Deutsch
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Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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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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If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
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