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. David Deutsch Read Quote
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. David Deutsch Read Quote
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. David Deutsch Read Quote
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. David Deutsch Read Quote
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. David Deutsch Read Quote
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, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book. David Deutsch Read Quote
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. David Deutsch Read Quote
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch Read Quote
It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. David Deutsch Read Quote
