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19 quotes by Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931), is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Penrose is known for his work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He has received a number...
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

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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 long way off from what other... →

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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... →

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As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which... →

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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 of knowing what these people have said in... →

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I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

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