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Roger Penrose quotes: Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose quotes: The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

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

Roger Penrose quotes: I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

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

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

Roger Penrose quotes: I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

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

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

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

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

Roger Penrose quotes: It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Roger Penrose quotes: But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose quotes: Understanding is, after all, what science is all about - and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

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

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

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

Roger Penrose quotes: 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.

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.

Roger Penrose quotes: I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

Roger Penrose quotes: Our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

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

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

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

Roger Penrose quotes: Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

Roger Penrose quotes: Even an aardvarks think their offspring are beautiful

Even an aardvarks think their offspring are beautiful

Roger Penrose quotes: Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Roger Penrose quotes: Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

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

Roger Penrose quotes: Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

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

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

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