David Deutsch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.”

“Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.”

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

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

“Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.”

“Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.”