Top 70 David Deutsch Quotes (2024 Update)
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David Deutsch Quote: “Whenever a wide range of variant theories can account equally well for the phenomenon they are trying to explain, there is no reason to prefer one of them over the others, so advocating a particular one in preference to the others is irrational.”

51. “Whenever a wide range of variant theories can account equally well for the phenomenon they are trying to explain, there is no reason to prefer one of them over the others, so advocating a particular one in preference to the others is irrational.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Those two overarching concerns are these: we Athenians are concerned above all with improvement; the Spartans seek only – stasis. Two opposite objectives. If.”

52. “Those two overarching concerns are these: we Athenians are concerned above all with improvement; the Spartans seek only – stasis. Two opposite objectives. If.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”

53. “This is what we can achieve when, as Feynman said, we keep learning more about how not to fool ourselves.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until theory tells us what to look for and how and why.”

54. “Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until theory tells us what to look for and how and why.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.”

55. “Yet, over time, the conclusions that science has drawn have become ever truer to reality.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Whenever we observe anything – a scientific instrument or a galaxy or a human being – what we are actually seeing is a single-universe perspective on a larger object that extends some way into other universes. In.”

56. “Whenever we observe anything – a scientific instrument or a galaxy or a human being – what we are actually seeing is a single-universe perspective on a larger object that extends some way into other universes. In.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Beware the difference between prediction and prophecy. Prophecy purports to know things which cannot be known.”

57. “Beware the difference between prediction and prophecy. Prophecy purports to know things which cannot be known.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.”

58. “Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “To interpret dots in the sky as white-hot, million-kilometre spheres, one must first have thought of the idea of such spheres. And then one must explain why they look small and cold and seem to move in lockstep around us and do not fall down. Such ideas do not create themselves, nor can they be mechanically derived from anything: they have to be guessed – after which they can be criticized and tested.”

59. “To interpret dots in the sky as white-hot, million-kilometre spheres, one must first have thought of the idea of such spheres. And then one must explain why they look small and cold and seem to move in lockstep around us and do not fall down. Such ideas do not create themselves, nor can they be mechanically derived from anything: they have to be guessed – after which they can be criticized and tested.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.”

60. “Its quest for good explanations corrects the errors, allows for the biases and misleading perspectives, and fills in the gaps.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “My pencil and I are more clever than I.”

61. “My pencil and I are more clever than I.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “It would be astonishing if the details of a primitive, static society’s collapse had any relevance to hidden dangers that may be facing our open, dynamic and scientific society, let alone what we should do about them.”

62. “It would be astonishing if the details of a primitive, static society’s collapse had any relevance to hidden dangers that may be facing our open, dynamic and scientific society, let alone what we should do about them.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?”

63. “Could it be that the moral imperative not to destroy the means of correcting mistakes is the only moral imperative?”

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David Deutsch Quote: “They are also about coherence, elegance and simplicity, as opposed to arbitrariness and complexity, though none of those things is easy to define either.”

64. “They are also about coherence, elegance and simplicity, as opposed to arbitrariness and complexity, though none of those things is easy to define either.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “The last room number is not infinity. First of all, there is no last room.”

65. “The last room number is not infinity. First of all, there is no last room.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the Earth to include the solar system, our Galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.”

66. “If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the Earth to include the solar system, our Galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one’s own and others’.”

67. “One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one’s own and others’.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Not only is there constant backtracking, but the many subproblems all remain simultaneously active and are addressed opportunistically.”

68. “Not only is there constant backtracking, but the many subproblems all remain simultaneously active and are addressed opportunistically.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “Unless a society is expecting its own future choices to be better than its present ones, it will strive to make its present policies and institutions as immutable as possible.”

69. “Unless a society is expecting its own future choices to be better than its present ones, it will strive to make its present policies and institutions as immutable as possible.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “There is an explanatory link between ought and is, and this provides one of the ways in which reason can indeed address moral issues.”

70. “There is an explanatory link between ought and is, and this provides one of the ways in which reason can indeed address moral issues.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “But in any case, understanding is one of the higher functions of the human mind and brain, and a unique one. Many other physical systems, such as animals’ brains, computers and other machines, can assimilate facts and act upon them. But at present we know of nothing that is capable of understanding an explanation – or of wanting one in the first place – other than a human mind.”

71. “But in any case, understanding is one of the higher functions of the human mind and brain, and a unique one. Many other physical systems, such as animals’ brains, computers and other machines, can assimilate facts and act upon them. But at present we know of nothing that is capable of understanding an explanation – or of wanting one in the first place – other than a human mind.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “El tiempo no transcurre. Otros tiempos son, simplemente, casos especiales de otros universos.”

72. “El tiempo no transcurre. Otros tiempos son, simplemente, casos especiales de otros universos.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.”

73. “We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.”

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David Deutsch Quote: “If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.”

74. “If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.”

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