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. Roger Penrose Read Quote
If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it. Roger Penrose Read Quote
Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along – it’s a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don’t think that’s a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe. Roger Penrose Read Quote
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose Read Quote
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society. Roger Penrose Read Quote
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits – very traditional, a lot of religious subjects. Roger Penrose Read Quote
My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests. Roger Penrose Read Quote
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess – no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things. Roger Penrose Read Quote
If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone. Roger Penrose Read Quote
A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don’t need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn’t understand. Roger Penrose Read Quote
