Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

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.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

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.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

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

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

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

No self is of itself alone.

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

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

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

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

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.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

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.

From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

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