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If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.

~Roger Penrose

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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.

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Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

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

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Science and fun cannot be separated.

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I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.

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I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

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I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Physicist

Born: August 8th, 1931

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