Erwin Schrödinger quotes - page 3

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. (Erwin Schrödinger)
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. View quote
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I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. View quote
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What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else? View quote
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In itself, the insight is not new. The earliest records, to my knowledge, date back some 2500 years or more... the recognition ATMAN = BRAHMAN (the personal self equals the omnipresent, all-comprehending eternal self) was in Indian thought considered, far from being blasphemous, to represent the quintessence of deepest insight into the happenings of the world. View quote
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So with all due acknowledgement to the fact that physical theory is at all times relative, in that it depends on certain basic assumptions, we may, or so I believe, assert that physical theory in its present stage strongly suggests the indestructibility of Mind by Time. View quote
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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. View quote
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Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. View quote
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The observing mind is not a physical system, it cannot interact with any physical system. View quote
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In physics we have dealt hitherto only with periodic crystals. View quote
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Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. (Erwin Schrödinger)
Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. View quote
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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; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. View quote
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Our burning question as to the whence and whither - all we can ourselves observe about it is the present environment. View quote
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Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the "world of energy." View quote
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The difference in structure is of the same kind as that between an ordinary wallpaper in which the same pattern is repeated again and again in regular periodicity and a masterpiece of embroidery, say a Raphael tapestry, which shows no dull repetition, but an elaborate, coherent, meaningful design traced by the great master. View quote
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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... View quote
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Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you ... For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. View quote
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The scientific world-picture vouchsafes a very complete understanding of all that happens - it makes it just a little too understandable. View quote
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On principle, there is nothing new in the postulate that in the end exact science should aim at nothing more than the description of what can really be observed. The question is only whether from now on we shall have to refrain from tying description to a clear hypothesis about the real nature of the world. There are many who wish to pronounce such abdication even today. But I believe that this means making things a little too easy for oneself. View quote
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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 Schrödinger)
PHYSICAL LAWS REST ON ATOMIC STATISTICS AND ARE THEREFORE ONLY APPROXIMATE. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We cannot, however, manage to make do with such old, familiar, and seemingly indispensable terms as "real" or "only possible"; we are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual case. View quote
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