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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Doe, Purpose, World

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, States, Egoism

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Nature, Book, Science

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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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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• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

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  Ocean, Home, Science

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Wise, Simple, Men

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Mother, Self

  "My View of the World". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1961.

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Systematic, Prudent, Essentials

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• [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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Science, Environmental, Negative

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Strong, Views, Mystical Experiences

  "The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science". Book by Amaury de Riencourt, 1981.

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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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Failure, Knowledge

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Running, Math, Long

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• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

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  Hands, Years, Able

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• Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

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  Mirrors, Deception, Different

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• Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Song, Moving, Names

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• 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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, Community, Vices

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Warrior, Men, Forever

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Broken, Words Of Wisdom, Doe

  "Mind and matter". Book by Erwin Schrödinger, 1958.

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• The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Two, Words Of Wisdom, Sincerity

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Light, Color, Wave

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

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  Mother, Suffering, Earth

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

  Erwin Schrodinger

  World, Given, Subjects

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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• 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...

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Self, Mind, World

  "Mind and Matter". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1958.

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• 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.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Sorry, Jumping, Mechanic

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