"[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy……" — Erwin Schrodinger
"[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."
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Erwin Schrodinger
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44 Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger
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For eternally and always there is only one now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing…
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Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none…
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I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were…
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The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on…
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The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in…
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In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that…
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No self is of itself alone
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical…
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Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you…
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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