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The organism feeds on negative entropy.
Erwin Schrodinger
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Erwin Schrodinger
Age: 73 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 12
Died: 1961
Died: January 4
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Mathematician
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Theoretical Physicist
Vienna
Austria
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger
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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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The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
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No self is of itself alone.
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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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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. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The I is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
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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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Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.
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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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Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
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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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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.
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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now the present is the only thing that has no end.
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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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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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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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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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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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