Erwin Schrödinger Quotes
“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. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“The present is the only things that has no end.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“I shall quite briefly mention here the notorious atheism of science. The theists reproach it for this again and again. Unjustly. A personal God can not be encountered in a world picture that becomes accessible only at the price that everything personal is excluded from it.
We know that whenever God is experienced, it is an experience exactly as real as a direct sense impression, as real as one’s own personality. As such He must be missing from the space-time picture. ‘I do not meet with God in space and time’, so says the honest scientific thinker, and for that reason he is reproached by those in whose catechism it is nevertheless stated: ‘God is Spirit’.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“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
“A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”
Erwin Schrodinger
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“Every complete set of chromosomes contains the full code; so there are, as a rule, two copies of the latter in the fertilized egg cell, which forms the earliest stage of the future individual. In calling the structure of the chromosome fibres a code-script we mean that the all-penetrating mind, once conceived by Laplace, to which every causal connection lay immediately open, could tell from their structure whether the egg would develop, under suitable conditions, into a black cock or into a speckled hen, into a fly or a maize plant, a rhododendron, a beetle, a mouse or a woman. To which we may add, that the appearances of the egg cells are very often remarkably similar; and even when they are not, as in the case of the comparatively gigantic eggs of birds and reptiles, the difference is not so much in the relevant structures as in the nutritive material which in these cases is added for obvious reasons.
But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow. They are law-code and executive power?or, to use another simile, they are architect’s plan and builder’s craft-in one.”
~Erwin Schrodinger
“From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any ‘new force’ or what not, directing the behavior of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“If you cannot?in the long run? ell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.”
~ Erwin Schrodinger
“In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of ‘whole numbers’ no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“Science is a game—but a game with reality, a game with sharpened knives … If a man cuts a picture carefully into 1000 pieces, you solve the puzzle when you reassemble the pieces into a picture; in the success or failure, both your intelligences compete. In the presentation of a scientific problem, the other player is the good Lord. He has not only set the problem but also has devised the rules of the game?ut they are not completely known, half of them are left for you to discover or to deduce. The experiment is the tempered blade which you wield with success against the spirits of darkness—or which defeats you shamefully. The uncertainty is how many of the rules God himself has permanently ordained, and how many apparently are caused by your own mental inertia, while the solution generally becomes possible only through freedom from its limitations.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“Why are atoms so small? … Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“[A living organism] … feeds upon negative entropy … Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
“[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
Albert Einstein Quotes
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
~ Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
~ Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
~ Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
~ Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~ Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
~ Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
~ Albert Einstein
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.
~ Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
~ Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
~ Albert Einstein
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” ~ Albert Einstein
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Inspirational Quotes
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
~George Eliot
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection
we can catch excellence.”
~Vince Lombardi
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided
but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
~Richard L. Evans
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
~Euripides
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
~Tryon Edwards
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
~Anais Nin
“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever
we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make
ourselves. If what we are now has been the result
of our own past actions, it certainly follows that
whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by
our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
~Swami Vivekananda
“Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
~Victoria Holt
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help.
Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind.
Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
~William Arthur Ward
“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.”
~Frank Tyger
“You may only be someone in the world,
but to someone else, you may be the world.”
~Author Unknown
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t
step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
~Nora Roberts
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Law Of Attraction Quotes
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it."
Napoleon Hill,
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."
James Allen,
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own."
Mark Victor Hansen,
"Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases…When you focus on the things you need, you’ll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don’t have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose…But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person’s life."
Andy Andrews,
"Anything we focus on we do create. So if we’re really angry, for instance, at a war that’s going on, or strife, or suffering, we’re adding our energy to it. We’re pushing ourselves, and that only creates resistance."
Hale Dwoskin,
"The past has no power over the present moment."
Eckhart Tolle,
"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks"
Florence Scovel Shinn,
"When the voice and the vision on the inside are more profound, and more clear and load than all opinions on the outside, you’ve begun to master your life"
John Demartini,
"The Predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariable attract such conditions as correspond to its nature."
Charles Haanel,
"Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing."
Esther and Jerry Hicks,
"Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson."
Bob Proctor,
"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence."
Jack Canfield,
"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do."
Denis Waitley,
"Today you are a magnet, for infinite abundance, divine intelligence, and unlimited love. Actually, this has always been true."
Mike Dooley,
"It’s really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher."
Joe Vitale,
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery."
Prentice Mulford,
"All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money."
Robert Collier,
"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts."
Brian Tracy,
"I just do not hang around anybody that I don’t want to be with. Period. For me, that’s been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you… and are having a fun time."
John Assaraf,
"It’s not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it, and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction."
Esther and Jerry Hicks,
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
~Peter F. Drucker
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
~Marcus Aurelius
"Let a person radically alter his thoughts
and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation
it will effect in the material conditions of his life."
~James Allen
“Change your thoughts, change your life.”
~James Allen
"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors;
that which it loves, and also that which it fears."
~James Allen~ Law of Attraction quotes
"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall
not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive
to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."
~James Allen
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts
for you will never go higher than you think.”
~Benjamin Disraeli
“You are never given a wish without also being given the
power to make it true. You may have to work at it, however.”
~Richard Bach
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play
no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality
and an imagined thought or image. What we continually
think about eventually will manifest in our lives."
~Robert Collier
“I will see it when I believe it.”
~Wayne Dyer
“Whatever you create in your life
you must first create in your imagination.”
~Tycho Photiou
"As we increasingly master our perceptions, beliefs, and thought/feeling patterns, we magnetically attract that which we most desire."
~Luanne Oakes
"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."
~Albert Einstein
“You create your own universe as you go along.”
~Winston Churchill
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment
and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility."
~Albert Schweitzer
"If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract."
~Bob Proctor
"He is greatest whose strength carries up
the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
~Henry Ward Beecher
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make our world."
~Buddha
"I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of
my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want,
and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one,
available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest."
~Andrew Carnegie
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.”
~William Jennings Bryan
“What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Follow your bliss and the Universe
will open doors where there were walls.”
~Joseph Campbell
"Think of this random Universe where everything is possible.
The organizational skills belong to Law of Attraction. If you will
relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization and the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you."
~Abraham Hicks
"You are a creator; you create with your every thought. You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)"
~Abraham Hicks
“What you resist persists.”
~Carl Jung
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.".
~William James
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.”
~Henry David Thoreau
"Every intention sets energy into motion,
whether you are conscious of it or not."
~Gary Zukav
"By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life."
~Gary Zukav
"Whether you think you can or can’t, either way you are right."
~Henry Ford
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back –
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
~Anaïs Nin
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
~Stephen Covey
"What power this is I cannot say. All that I know is that it exists."
~Alexander Graham Bell
"Your mind is a powerful magnet that will attract to you the things you identify yourself with. If you have sad thoughts, you will attract tragedies. If you are a good man, you will attract the company of good people."
~Alfredo Karras
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
~Walt Disney
“To accomplish great things we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan but also believe.”
~Anatole France
Upanishads Quotes
Upanishad literally means a “sitting down beside”, a session, an esoteric doctrine. In a wider sense, the Upanishads are the conclusion of the Vedas and are devoted to theological and philosophical speculations on the nature of the world and man. The fundamental doctrine of the Upanishads is the identity of the individual soul (atman) with the world soul (adman-brahma). The formula “tat tvam asi”, “thou art that”, is the keynote of all Upanishad teaching. The following excerpts will exemplify this point.
Thou Art That
The father said to Svataketu, his little son:
“Bring me a fig from that fig tree yonder.”
“Here is one, sir.”
“Break it.”
“It is broken, sir.”
“What do you see there?”
“Some little seeds, sir.”
“Break one of them.”
“It is broken, sir.”
“And what do you see now?”
“Nothing whatsoever.”
Then the father said to his son: “Of that subtleness which you cannot see is the great fig tree made. In that subtleness all that exists has its essence. That is the True, that is the Self, and thou art That.”
“Pray sir,” said the son, “tell me more.”
“So be it, my child,” the father replied and he said, “place this salt in water and come to me tomorrow morning.”
The son did as he was told. Next morning the father said, “Bring me the salt which you put in the water.” The son felt for it but could not find it, for the salt had dissolved.
The father said, “Taste some of the water from the surface. How is it?”
“Salty.”
“Taste from the middle. How does it taste?”
“Salty.”
“Taste some from the bottom. How is it?”
“Salty.”
The father said, “Throw the water away and then come back to me.”
The son did so; but the salt was not lost, for salt exists forever. Then the father said, “Likewise in this body of yours, my child, you cannot perceive the True; but there it is. In the subtle essence all that exists has its being. That is the True, that is the Self, andd thou, Svetaketu, art That.”
- From the Chandogya Upanishad
“The Self, free from evil, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, hungerless, thirstless, real of desire, real of purpose, – that Self is to be sought after and inquired about, that Self is to be realized. All worlds he wins and all desires who understands the Self,” said Prajapati.
Both the gods and the demons heard of this. “Come,” they said, “let us seek out this Self so that we can win all the worlds and the fulfilment of all desires.”
Thereupon Indra of the gods and Virochana of the demons set out and approached Prajapati, the famous teacher. They stayed with him as students for thirty two years. Then Prajapati asked them: “For what reason have you lived here all this time?”
And they replied: “The Self, free from evil, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, hungerless, thirstless, real of desire, real of purpose, this should men inquire after and should seek to know. All the worlds he wins and all desires who realizes this Self. This they report to be your saying, sir, and that is why we have stayed.”
Prajapati said to them: “The Being who is seen in the eye – that is the Self. That is deathless, that is fearless an that is Brahman.”
“Sir,” inquired the disciples, “who is seen reflected in water or in a mirror?”
“He, the Atman,” was the reply. And Prajapati added: “Look at yourselves in the water, and whatever you do not understand, come and tell me.”
Indra and Virochana looked at themselves in the water and when Prajapati asked them what they had seen, they replied: “Sir, we see the whole of ourselves, even down to our hair and nails.” Then Prajapati bid them put on their finest clothes and look again at their “selves” in the water. This they did and when asked again what they had seen in the water, they answered: “Sir, we see the Self, exactly like ourselves, well adorned in our finest clothes.”
And Prajapati said: “The Self is indeed seen in these. That Self is deathless and fearless, and that is Brahman.” And the students went away content.
But gazing after them Prajapati lamented: “They have gone away without comprehending the Self. Whoever follows this doctrine, as it is false, must surely perish.”
Satisfied that he had found the Self, Virochana returned to the demons and explained to them that the bodily self alone should be served and that he who serves the body gains both worlds, this and the next. And this, in effect, is the doctrine of the demons; and when one of them dies they furnish his body with food and clothing, imagining that therewith he will win the world beyond.
But Indra, on his way back to the gods realized the uselessness of this knowledge. “As the Self,” he reflected, “seems to be well adorned, well dressed when the body is well dressed, so too will it be blind when the body is blind, lame if the body is lame, deformed if the body is deformed. Nay more, this same Self will perish when the body perishes. I see no good in such knowledge.” And so he returned to the teacher for further instruction. Prajapati received him kindly and bade him stay with him for another two-and-thirty years, after which he said to him:
“He who wanders about rejoicing in dreams – he is the Self. That is deathless and fearless, and that is Brahman.”
Indra departed again, content of heart. But before he had rejoined the other angelic beings, he realized the uselessness of that knowledge also. “True it is,” he said to himself, “that this new Self does not become blind if the body is blind, not lame, not deformed if the body is lame or deformed; but nevertheless even in dreams the Self is conscious of many sufferings. So I see no good even in this teaching.”
And so, once more he returned to Prajapati for more instruction and stayed with him for another two-and-thirty years. At the end of that time Prajapati taught him thus: “When a man is asleep and in perfect peace, dreaming no dreams, then he realizes the Self. That is deathless, that is fearless, and that is Brahman.”
Indra departed, content of heart. But even before he had reached home, he felt the fallacy of this knowledge also. “When one is asleep,” he thought, “one does not know oneself as ‘This is I’. One is not conscious of any existence. I see no good in this knowledge either.”
So Indra went back to Prajapati once again to be taught. The teacher bade him stay another five years. At the end of that time, after having stayed with Prajapati altogether for one hundred years, the sage taught him the highest truth of the Self.
“This body,” he said, “is mortal and forever in the clutch of death. But within it resides the Self, immortal and without form. This Self, when embodied, is subject to pleasure and pain. But joy and sorrow touch not what is unembodied. Rising above physical consciousness, knowing the Self as unembodied, distinct from the sense-organs, one rejoices and passes into the Supreme Light.”
- From the Chandogya Upanishad.
Study is not Enough
The Self is not realizable by study nor by intelligence and learning. The Self reveals itself only to him who devotes himself entirely to the Self.
- Katha Upanishad
Two Birds
Two birds reside together in one tree which is the body. One of them, the soul, consumes the fruits of its actions, but the other, God, without partaking of them, witnesses all.
The soul, pressed down in the body, being deluded with ignorance, grieves at its own insufficiency, but when it perceives its mate, the origin itself, it feels relieved.
A wise man, knowing God as residing in all creatures, forsakes all idea of duality, being convinced that there is only one existence which is God. He directs all his senses toward God alone and on Him exclusively he places his love, abstracting his mind from all worldly objects.
- Munduk Upanishad.
