David Deutsch Quotes

A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.

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• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Study
  • Rich

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Opinion
  • Personal
  • Left

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Marketers

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • Different
  • Fear

• I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Regret

• Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • God
  • Gold

• 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • True
  • Die
  • Question

• People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • People
  • True

• A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.

  

  David Deutsch
  • True