To mathematicians … mathematics is not just a cultural activity that we ourselves have created, but it has a life of its own, and much of it finds an amazing harmony with the physical universe.
Alfred A. Knopf quotes
View All Authors View SourcesRoughly speaking [a black hole] is a region of Spacetime that has resulted from the inward gravitational collapse of material, where the gravitational attraction has become so strong that even light cannot escape.
— Roger Penrose (2004)
p. 707
This distance is considered to be of profound relevance in quantum gravity theory…
— Roger Penrose (2004)
Mathematically driven fundamental physics.
— Roger Penrose (2004)
p. 104
We see that CP sends a particle’s zig into its antiparticle’s zag.
— Roger Penrose (2004)
p. 638
Physicists say that the [measurement] results are correlated … but do not stand in a traditional cause-and-effect relationship because nothing travels between the two distant locations. … Many physicists find this convincing, but others have a nagging sense that there is more to the story.
— Brian Greene (2003)
p. 117
… the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.
— Raymond Chandler (1939)
p. 139