Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRSis an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth8 August 1931
real knowing 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.
consistency requirements way
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.
elements computer humans
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
revenge ambition vain
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
thinking years long
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
understanding doe computer
Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.
plato ideas mind
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.
reality relation shakes
our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up
purpose chance universe
I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.
example strange mystery
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, ....
motherhood world morality
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
running thinking views
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.
law circles consistency
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.
consciousness made existence
Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.