Quantum Wisdom: Essential Quotes from Erwin Schrödinger

Explore “Quantum Wisdom: Essential Quotes from Erwin Schrödinger,” a collection of the most insightful and thought-provoking quotes from the renowned physicist. Delve into the mind of a quantum pioneer and discover the profound reflections that have influenced science and philosophy.

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

Erwin Schrödinger

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

The present is the only things that has no end.

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….Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don’t.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

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

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.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.