Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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.

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

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

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.

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

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

The present is the only thing that has no end.

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

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

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 does not become manifest by its mere existence.

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.

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

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

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...

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

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.

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 of them.

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

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

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

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 phenomena.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

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

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

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

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

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

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.

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

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

No self is of itself alone.

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

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

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

[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.

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...

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

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 not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.