“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
“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.” WayLawConsciousnessProduceMathematicsComplexesPhysicsCirclesConsistencyLaws Of PhysicsComplex Systems Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” WayShouldCertainTheoryBehaveExtrasDimensionsStringsConsistencyRequirementsString Theory Author:Roger Penrose
“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.” ThinkingWayYearsLongProblemMy OwnLong TimeWay Of ThinkingPondering 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
