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Erwin Schrodinger Inspirational Quotes (33)

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Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.
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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.
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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.
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If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.
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The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.
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Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
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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.
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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.
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If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
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[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.
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
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I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
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The total number of minds in the universe is one.
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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
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No self is of itself alone.
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