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"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything."

"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."

"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."

"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."

"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."

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"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."


"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."


"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."


"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."


"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."


"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."


"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."


"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."


"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
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