He was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. In 1935 he proposed the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment.
(1887 – 1961)
– Erwin Schrodinger Quotes –
I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
~ 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
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
~ 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
Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
~ 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 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
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
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
We have just introduced the term gene for the hypothetical material carrier of a definite hereditary feature.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am. This is my situation as yours, every single one of you
~ Erwin Schrodinger
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.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.
~ 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
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.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
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 Schrodinger
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.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth
~ Erwin Schrodinger
If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology – we are quite unable to imagine the contrary.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
the mystics of many centuries, independently, yet in perfect harmony with each other (somewhat like the particles in an ideal gas) have described, each of them, the unique experience of his or her life in terms that can be condensed in the phrase.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The laws of physics and chemistry are statistical throughout.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
It is these chromosomes that contain in some kind of code-script the entire pattern of the individual’s future development and of its functioning in the mature state. Every complete set of chromosomes contains the full code.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the “world of energy.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The observing mind is not a physical system, it cannot interact with any physical system. And it might be better to reserve the term “subject” for the observing mind… For the subject, if anything, is the thing that senses and thinks.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men – and cowards.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
