Erwin Schrodinger

This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in a single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula, Tat tvam asi (that is you).

The idea that there is a soul, which is a kind of independent entity in the body, is not something that I think a lot of people would agree with today. But the idea that consciousness is something that is not reducible to the brain is something that many people still hold.

The result of the experiment is that the cat is both dead and alive, like the famous case of the young woman who was both a virgin and a mother.

We are thus faced with the following dilemma: either the cells of the organism contain a highly efficient 'memory' for all the details of previous events, or they are, in some mysterious way, able to 'foresee' future events.

The number of children born to a marriage ought to be limited, and that a man who has already had some children should be sterilized.

A theoretical science, if it is to be healthy, must be able to hold its own against the practical application of its theories.

The only possible way of avoiding paradoxes is to admit that the 'observer' is not something that stands outside the world, but is part of it.

Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown.

But the truth is that we are not living in a world of objects, but in a world of events.

In fact, I should say that the world is a picture drawn by ourselves, and that we are ourselves part of the picture.

The scientific picture of the world is very successful, but it is incomplete. It leaves out something essential, something that is very close to us, namely, our own consciousness.

I consider the idea of a personal God as being very childish. We must give up this idea.

The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the belief that one knows something which one does not know.

The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.

What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The fact that life exists and that it is maintained by a continuous stream of 'negentropy' from the outside, is the most profound mystery of all.

The true meaning and purpose of human life lies in our striving for understanding and knowledge.

The scientific method is the best way to get at the truth, but it is not the only way.

If we were to take the general view of the world as consisting of individual consciousnesses, each one having its own unique experience, then we would be faced with an enormous number of independent worlds.

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very 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.