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).
— Erwin Schrodinger Modern

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What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell & Mind and Matter

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1944 (What is Life?), 1958 (Mind and Matter)

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https://archive.org/details/whatislifephysic00schruoft/page/89/mode/2up

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