Erwin Schrodinger Quotes
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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.
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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.
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If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
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The total number of minds in the universe is one.
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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.
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Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.
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Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
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In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
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If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
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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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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 can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.
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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
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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.
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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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No self is of itself alone.
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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.
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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 other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
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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.