As you say, the way string theory requir... by Roger Penrose

Mathematician physicist Consistency Singularity Black Holes

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

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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

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

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

- Roger Penrose

Pretty

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

- Roger Penrose

Morality

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

- 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

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