The rational thing for a layperson to do is to take serious… - David Deutsch

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The rational thing for a layperson to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory.

David Deutsch

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David Deutsch (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) 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, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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Alternative Names: David Elieser Deutsch

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The rational thing for a layperson to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory. - David Deutsch

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