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Physicist

Austrian physicist and one of the key founders of quantum mechanics. His major contributions include the formulation of the Schrödinger equation, which had a profound impact on the development of quantum mechanics.

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“The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.”

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Book:What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

“[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.”

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Book:What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole... Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you.”

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Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece 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."”

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

Men World Mind Imagination Existence Creativity Remains Every Man Constructs

Book:What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

About the Author

Born: August 12, 1887
Died: January 4, 1961
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 68

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