Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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• Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...
• In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
• If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
• Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
• No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is…
• What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
• 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…
• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can…
• I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
• An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic…
• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot…
• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty…
• The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
• The present is the only things that has no end.

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