Roger Penrose Quotes

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• And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a…
• Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness…
• Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
• It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.
• Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
• We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces…
• There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine…
• No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern…
• The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
• Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has…
• Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
• Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
• Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people…
• I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
• I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.
• It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding…
• I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made…
• But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
• As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and…
• If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

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