Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Thinking, Everyday, Tasks

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• The total number of minds in the universe is one.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Numbers, Mind, Universe

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• The present is the only thing that has no end.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Ends

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Believe, Destiny, Waiting

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Oneness, Physics, Quantum

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• Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Fundamentals, Consciousness, Term

  The Observer, January 11, 1931.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Time, Ends, End Times

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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• We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

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  Dog, Horse, Believe

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mind, Multiplicity

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Song, Moving, Tears

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Men, Say Anything, Reason

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• I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Karma, Men, Self

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

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

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  Creativity, Men, Imagination

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Who I Am, Knows

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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• No self is of itself alone.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Spiritual, Self

  "A Life of Erwin Schrödinger". Book by Walter Moore, 1994.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Views, Wave

  "Schrödinger: Life and Thought". Book by Walter Moore, 1989.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Space, Variation, Body

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Self, World, Found

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• Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Consciousness

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• There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Lying, Kind, Consciousness

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 4), 1961.

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Memories, Science, Perception

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• The organism feeds on negative entropy.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Negative, Entropy, Organisms

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Answers, Unfathomable

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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Self, Demand

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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