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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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David Deutsch is a renowned physicist born in 1953. He has made significant contributions to the fields of quantum computing and quantum information, particularly in the research of quantum bits and quantum logic gates. His work has had a profound impact on modern physics and computer science. more

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