“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 Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“The present is the only thing that has no end.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“The non-physicist finds it hard to believe that really the ordinary laws of physics, which he regards as the prototype of inviolable precision, should be based on the statistical tendency of matter to go over into disorder.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.”
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"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 Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"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 Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"If you cannot—in the long run—tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. … Nature does not act by purposes."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"We never experiment with just one electron or atom or (small) molecule. In thought-experiments we sometimes assume that we do; this invariably entails ridiculous consequences…. In the first place it is fair to state that we are not experimenting with single particles, any more than we can raise Ichthyosauria in the zoo."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ... Quantum wave structures are real and material particles are not."
― Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)