David Deutsch

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born

Haifa, Israel

gender

male

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http://www.qubit.org/people/david/

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Science, Philosophy

influences

Karl R. Popper, Jacob Bronowski, William Godwin

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David Deutsch, FRS is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by being the first person to formulate a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He is also a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

In his books, he also made philosophical contributions. In epistemology, he stressed the importance of explanation, and proposed 'hard to vary' as a criterion for good explanations. In memetics, he gave an ac...more

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David Deutsch's Books

Average rating: 4.04 · 1,525 ratings · 172 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Menti, macchine e multiverso. Alla ricerca del computer quantistico by Julian Brown, Simonetta Frediani (Traduttore), David Deutsch (Contributor) 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by David Deutsch

“The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.”
― David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications

tags: science, scientific-method

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“Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

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