Erwin Schrodinger Quotes about Science

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.

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

Memories, Science, Perception

Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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.

Erwin Schrodinger

Life, Science, Law

"What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches".

[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

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.

Erwin Schrodinger

Ocean, Home, Science

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

[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

Plato, Real, Science

Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

Erwin Schrodinger

Sorry, Apology, Science

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

Mean, Science, Measurement

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

Believe, Communication, Science

Erwin Schrodinger Quotes about Science

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