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Roger Penrose Quotes

English - Physicist | August 8, 1931 -

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Morality Question Up Consciousness

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

World You Morality Consciousness Any

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

Movies See Seen Where Well Matrix

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.

People Looking Think Universe View

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

Purpose Chance Universe Say Sense

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.

Moment People Think View Some People

The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.

Work Imagination Mind Hands True

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

Brother Society Royal Older Fellow

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

Brother Champion Chess Up British

My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

Family Father Artist Professional

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.

Father Children Down More Human Get

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.

Great Understanding You Understand

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