--- ## Highlights because there’s no limit to how much knowledge we can create, there’s no limit to how much we can improve the world. ([View Highlight](https://www.shortform.com/app/highlights/53bb20b2-59ee-4521-b176-aae2eaeb3e74)) In The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch makes five key arguments: People create knowledge, rather than acquiring it through experience or observation. There is no limit to how much knowledge people can create. By the very nature of infinity, we always have been and always will be at the beginning of the process of creating knowledge—hence the book’s title. New knowledge changes civilization for the better. Because we’ll never stop learning, civilization will never stop improving. ([View Highlight](https://www.shortform.com/app/highlights/3dd6bd42-ef8f-4242-9acd-929dc1d3569f)) ated ideas, as well as how some of his theories have been put into practice in real life. ([View Highlight](https://www.shortform.com/app/highlights/4ffef61f-1fac-4dde-9345-f9541193ec5c)) it’s impossible to gain true knowledge just from observation, because we also have to interpret whatever we observe ([View Highlight](https://www.shortform.com/app/highlights/c51ce80f-0a18-456a-b934-8cab18b37ed3)) Positivism, says that the only true knowledge is scientific knowledge, and all scientific knowledge can be proven or verified through experimentation ([View Highlight](https://www.shortform.com/app/highlights/2cc4892f-0a83-480c-911a-ea8d1f4578a2))