Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas. Roger Penrose More Quotes by Roger Penrose More Quotes From Roger Penrose It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform. Roger Penrose doegivingreality Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has. Roger Penrose gaugesunderstandingideas 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 knowingrealpeople 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 physicsrelationshipbook I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems. Roger Penrose tenaciousproblem 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 consistencyrequirementsway The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions. Roger Penrose dimensionstheoryadd I was indeed very slow as a youngster. Roger Penrose youngsters 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 feelingspeoplethinking Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. Roger Penrose themewells But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. Roger Penrose pregnancybeautythinking Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. Roger Penrose mindlessdealsunderstanding 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 longpeoplethinking I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring. Roger Penrose worthi-amsomethingthink My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record. Roger Penrose upchampionbrotherchess If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete. Roger Penrose betterrespecthumanityworld 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 sayingthinkyouworry As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. Roger Penrose questionwellmoralityconsciousness The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter. Roger Penrose imaginationmindworkhands A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever. Roger Penrose justbeingclevermind
