Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind ...

LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it ...

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

If we are going t stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

THE STRIKING CONTRAST In biology we are faced with an entirely different situation.

disorderly experience we should have if our senses were susceptible to the impact of a few molecules only.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

The present is the only things that has no end.

No self is of itself alone

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

proportional to the absolute temperature, in quantitative agreement with theory (Curie's law).

Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether my way of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short, it was mine.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. ... Nature does not act by purposes.

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic;

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with quantum theory.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum
mechanics.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

THE STRIKING CONTRAST

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.