80 Quotes by Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

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

Entire lights rays - you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

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 like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

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

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!