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

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

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

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

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

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

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.