Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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• For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than…
• I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more…
• The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly…
• [Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience...
• [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of…
• From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be…
• The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything…
• In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization…
• No self is of itself alone
• The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with…
• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and…
• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
• If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world,…
• In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of…
• Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
• 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…
• There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal…
• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of…
• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only…

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