Some years ago, I wrote a book called th... by Roger Penrose

Years Mind Mathematician physicist Calculations

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

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Morality

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

- Roger Penrose

Nature Right

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.

- 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

Pretty

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

- Roger Penrose

Theory

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

- Roger Penrose

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

- Roger Penrose

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