“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.” PeopleWorldBelieveMeanReasonBodyMy OwnAnimalDogMaterialsMy FriendsCatHorseCommunicateReason WhyConstructsMy DogSpectatorsMaterial WorldCat And Dog Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.” IfsMenReasonContradictionSay Anything Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“[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.” FirstsIdeasRealReasonRealityScienceExistenceTimelessPlato 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.” LifeSelfReasonWholeSeemsEarthMotherCertainExistencePiecesOrdinaryConsciousConvictionThis LifeFlatsMother Earth Author:Erwin Schrodinger
