Roger Penrose Quotes

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.

We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

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

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

This universe was made for you and me.

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.