And these little things may not seem lik... by Roger Penrose

People May Thinking Mathematician physicist

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

- Roger Penrose

Other quotes by 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

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

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

Theory

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

- 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

Morality

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

- Roger Penrose

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