80 Quotes by Roger Penrose

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.

My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.