"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."

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Source : David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

David Deutsch

#Majority Quotes #Tests Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.”

Source : "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, www.ditext.com. 1956.
“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.”
“Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.”
“My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.”
“The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.”
“As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.”
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”

Source : Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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