If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.