Quotes by Roger Penrose

21 quotes by Roger Penrose

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 long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Quote about things, thinking, nation

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

Quote about moral, question

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 so on.

Quote about opinion

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Quote about moral, miracle, beauty

Entire lights rays you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

Quote about univers, light

I certainly don't believe that these things like Terminator or something coming from the future who is a mechanical entity.

Quote about future, things

I find it amusing and entertaining and I've always been a fan of science fiction. I used to read it a lot when I was younger.

Quote about humor, fiction, science

In fact you may be surprised by this, I was even moved down a class once because I couldn't do mental arithmetic.

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 either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Quote about books, nature

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Quote about hope, problems, thinking, time

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

Quote about nation

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Quote about things, nation

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Quote about opinion, world

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

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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 view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

Quote about books, mind

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

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The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

Quote about idea, use

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

Quote about books, physics, mathematics

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

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 been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Quote about force, day, idea