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Roger Penrose

"I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'."

Source : Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.554, OUP Oxford

Roger Penrose

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“The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.”
“If you want to be friendly with puppies and everyone else because they're so cute, you better be nice to your owners.”

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“What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.”
“My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'...it's strong. It means you're able to go on.”

Source : "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Book by Susan Crandall, 2014.
“I'm going to be a president who believes in science.”
“Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.”
“Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, â€œCan you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?â€ â€œCan do,â€ Janco said with a smile. â€œLieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. Heâ€™s been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage.”
“When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive”

Source : "Austrian daredevil breaks sound barrier jumping from space". "7.30" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.

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