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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about things, thinking, contentment, people
Quotes by Roger Penrose
21 quotes by Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose - english physicist
Life period: 1931
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about moral, morality, 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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about opinion, contentment
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about moral, morality, 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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about univers, light, contentment
I certainly don't believe that these things like Terminator or something coming from the future who is a mechanical entity.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about future, faith, 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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose 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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about contentment
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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about books, nature, rightness
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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about hope, problems, thinking, time
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
RQuote by Roger Penrose 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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about nation, things, people
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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about opinion, morality, world
The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about opinion
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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about idea, use, contentment
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.
RQuote by Roger Penrose about books, physics, mathematics, contentment
