Roger Penrose Quotes

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

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

This universe was made for you and me.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

There's got to be something greater than us.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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

The Universe is never conspiring against anyone.

I believe that the universe works how it's supposed to work.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.