The Beginning of Infinity

By David Deutsch,

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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the…

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1 author picked The Beginning of Infinity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

More so than any book I’ve ever read, this book made me hopeful for humanity’s trajectory. I love how Deutsch has taken incredibly complex topics (quantum physics, mathematics, etc.) and made them accessible for laypeople like myself.

This book has given me a new perspective on the way humanity approaches problems and the potential we inherently possess. The lessons in this nonfiction work—that humanity’s potential is theoretically infinite—significantly shaped my thinking while writing my book. 

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