87 Quotes by Erwin Schrödinger

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

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world. … Nature does not act by purposes.

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

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

The present is the only things that has no end.

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.