"There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values……" — Roger Penrose
"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 structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, ...."
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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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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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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense…
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