{"id":8174,"date":"2012-04-14T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2012-04-14T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T18:32:12","slug":"quote-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/quote-of-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/687943?uid=3739560&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=47698877458367\">David Deutsch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be <em>literally true as a description of nature<\/em> is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Deutsch: &#8220;Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension, and even anger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}