Theory Quotes by Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

— Roger Penrose

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he…

— Roger Penrose

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard…

— Roger Penrose

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

— Roger Penrose

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

— Roger Penrose

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

— Roger Penrose

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

— Roger Penrose

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if…

— Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little…

— Roger Penrose

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

— Roger Penrose

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

— Roger Penrose

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

— Roger Penrose

I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational…

— Roger Penrose

What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual…

— Roger Penrose