"I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a……" — Roger Penrose
"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 possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'."
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Roger Penrose
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32 Quotes by Roger Penrose
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And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction…
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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of…
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
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It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of…
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Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
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We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead…
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There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example,…
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No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see…
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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
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Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on…
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Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
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Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
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