In the book, I make the point that here... by Roger Penrose

Right Nature Mathematician physicist Singularity

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

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

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

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

Beauty

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

- 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

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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