People think of these eureka moments and... by Roger Penrose

People Feeling Mathematician physicist Singularity

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.

- Roger Penrose

Other quotes by Roger Penrose

Consistency

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.

- Roger Penrose

Calculations Mind Years

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.

- Roger Penrose

Morality World

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

Trust

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

Idea

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.

- Roger Penrose

Relativity

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.

- Roger Penrose

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