The present is the only thing that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger More Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger More Quotes From Erwin Schrodinger 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 [Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience. Erwin Schrodinger real plato science Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum Erwin Schrodinger entanglement mechanic characteristics In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. Erwin Schrodinger honest periods ignorance If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all. Erwin Schrodinger reason say-anything men If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. Erwin Schrodinger math running long 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 simple wise men [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 environmental science negative The stages of human development are to strive for: Erwin Schrodinger strive stage development Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it. Erwin Schrodinger unfathomable answers I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. Erwin Schrodinger measurement science mean 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 mechanic jumping sorry 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. Erwin Schrodinger able hands years A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. Erwin Schrodinger measurement analysis preparation The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty. Erwin Schrodinger ancestor self fifty 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. Erwin Schrodinger communication science believe The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves. Erwin Schrodinger wave color light The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment. Erwin Schrodinger philosophical yesterday attitude I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. Erwin Schrodinger apology sorry science No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory. Erwin Schrodinger self memories long
