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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

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Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Equations, Skip, Afraid, Frequently

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'.

Plato, Ideas, Mind, Process, Truth, Contact

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Motherhood, World, Morality, Consciousness, Wouldnt

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Understanding, Doe, Computer, Awareness, Present

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

Deal, Deals, Mindless, Understanding

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.

Consistency, Requirements, Way, Behave, Theory, Say

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Science, Elements, Computer, Human, Computers, Element

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Due, Picture, Reality, Relation, Shake, Shakes

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.

Ideas, Understanding, Gauges, Days, Fundamental, Physical

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.

Relationship, Book, Physics, Intimately, Trust

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.

Hope, Let, Long, Thinking, Way, Years

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.

Comment, Knowing, People, Philosopher, Real, Sense

What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

Dog, Strong, Zoos, Sense, Impression, Ability

Consciousness. . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Consciousness, Existence, Known, Made, Phenomenon, Science

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Actually, Movies, Seen, Theme, Themes, Wells

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.

Feeling, Feelings, People, Tend, Things, Thinking

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.

Running, Thinking, Views, Runs, Sense, View

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.

Like, Long, People, Thinking

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

Allowed, Apparent, Magic, Parent, Stern, Teacher

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

Add, Dimensions, Theory

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