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Erwin Schrödinger
(12 Aug 1887 - 4 Jan 1961)

Austrian theoretical physicist.


Science Quotes by Erwin Schrödinger (3)

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 Schrödinger
What is Life? (1956), 74.
See also:  |  Atom (81)  |  Law (128)  |  Life (146)  |  Organism (21)  |  Physics (61)

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
Quoted in L. Bertalanffy, Problems of Life (1952).
See also:  |  See (6)  |  Task (3)  |  Thought (63)

[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
Quoted in Robert J. Scully, The Demon and the Quantum (2007), 3.
See also:  |  Existence (40)  |  Plato (15)



Quotes by others about Erwin Schrödinger (2)

The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrödinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
Gifford Lectures (1927), The Nature of the Physical World (1928), 199.
See also:  |  Atom (81)  |  Electron (26)

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge—and a very good dodge too.
Gifford Lectures (1927), The Nature of the Physical World (1928), 219.
See also:  |  Quantum Mechanics (8)  |  Theory (170)


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