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Erwin Schrodinger quotes

Austrian Scientist August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961

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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very 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. Science sometimes... Erwin Schrodinger
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
I shall quite briefly mention here the notorious atheism of science. The theists reproach it for this again and again. Unjustly. A personal God can not be encountered in a world picture that becomes accessible only at the price that everything personal is excluded from it. We know that whenever God is experienced, it is an experience exactly as real as a direct sense impression, as real as one’s own personality. As such He must be missing from the space-time picture. ‘I do not meet with God... Erwin Schrodinger
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. Erwin Schrodinger
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
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
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly..."
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. Erwin Schrodinger
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
The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe."
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. Erwin Schrodinger
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
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but..."
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "The present is the only things that has no end."
The present is the only things that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger quote: "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one..."
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. Erwin Schrodinger

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