- Nov 07, 2020
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- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and fun cannot be separated.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Computation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020