[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world… Nature does not act… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got involved with… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information,… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share
“When in the puppet-show of dreams we hold in hand the strings of quite a number of actors, controlling their actions and their speech,… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share
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