“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.” PeopleThinkingWayMayLittlesLongHas BeensSeemsLittle ThingsLong Way Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsSaidI CanRealKnowingToo MuchLet MePhilosopherDetailsCommentHegel Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMomentsFeelingsBuiltLittle ThingsRealisation Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayLittlesMomentsHappensRunningPurposeCertainUniverseBitsChanceViewsExistenceDeeperAccidentsHelpful Author:Roger Penrose