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Predicting or describing something is not the same as understanding it
Drawn from what David Deutsch said
What David Deutsch actually said
- David Deutsch Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation
Being able to predict things or to describe them, however accurately, is not at all the same thing as understanding them.
Where this was said
↗The Fabric of Reality (Penguin Books, 1998; first published 1997)archive.org
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