An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. Erwin Schrodinger More Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger More Quotes From Erwin Schrodinger 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 everydaytasksthinking Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind. Erwin Schrodinger multiplicitymind Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. Erwin Schrodinger quantumonenessphysics The total number of minds in the universe is one. Erwin Schrodinger universemindnumbers 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 destinywaitingbelieve Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture. Erwin Schrodinger selffoundworld 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. Erwin Schrodinger horsedogbelieve 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 consciousnesskindlying What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Erwin Schrodinger variationspacebody Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence. Erwin Schrodinger creativityimaginationmen The present is the only thing that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger ends I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am. Erwin Schrodinger who-i-amknows Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. Erwin Schrodinger karmaselfmen 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 painbeautifulsweet The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. Erwin Schrodinger sinceritywords-of-wisdomtwo 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 end-timesendstime 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 perceptionmemoriesscience The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. Erwin Schrodinger prudentsystematicessentials 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 consciousnesstermfundamentals 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 namessongmoving
