Erwin Schrodinger

Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether my way of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short, it was mine.

We are told such a number as the square root of 2 worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was highly credible.

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.

The greatest American art form is the comic strip.

What is life? The answer to this question is not what one expects.

The scientist only imposes the laws of nature on nature.

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. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole.

I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am.

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.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth.

The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture.

Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings.