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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 laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

From David Deutsch

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.

From David Deutsch

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

From David Deutsch

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

From David Deutsch

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

From David Deutsch

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.

From David Deutsch

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

From David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

From 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.

From David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

From David Deutsch

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