Erwin Schrödinger

“If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi”

“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness . Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91”

“Schrödinger equation”

“For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain . A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light on the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? 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? "Seek for the Road"”

“The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being] Writings of August 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore”

“No self is of itself alone . It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors … This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory . Writings of July 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore”

“Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge ... It has nothing to do with the individual . The ego or its separation is an illusion . Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents”

“'If finally we look back at that idea of [Ernst] Mach [1838”

“But it is quite easy to express the solution in words, thus: the plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy, in which this is a fundamental dogma, has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many”

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely apiece 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. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi , this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world. in Moore, Walter J., Schrödinger: Life and Thought Cambridge University Press (1992). pp.170”