Schrodinger Quotes

• Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, People, Poison

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Dodge, Wave

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 10), 1928.

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• Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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• Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Discovery, Media, World

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Perfect

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