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With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.

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David Deutsch

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Quantum computation is. . . a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. . . It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

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