Author: David Deutsch

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

- David Deutsch

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.

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.

- David Deutsch

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

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

- David Deutsch

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