If you didn't have any conscious beings... by Roger Penrose | We Heart Quotes

World Morality Mathematician physicist Singularity

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

Other quotes by Roger Penrose

Feeling People

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

Direction

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

- Roger Penrose

Sense People

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 any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

- Roger Penrose

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

- 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

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

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