“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldLifeDoeWholePurposeSpaceKnowledgeImpossibleFailingFailureFitResearchConcernAimActivePhysicsDescriptionRejectsTime And SpaceStandpointOuter WorldsEmpiricismSpace Time Author: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.” WayFirstsBelieveWholeShowsScienceI BelieveWishNaturalNumbersCasesCommunicationRateSimplicityStringsConceptionAtomsUsualQuantumReplacedRequirementsSimplestHydrogenIntegersHydrogen Atom 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... 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
“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."” KnowsMenWorldWholeCertainSimpleExistenceClearPiecesWiseTraditionSacredWestEastThis LifePriestsFormulasHinduismGlancesMysticBrahminsAbove And Below Author:Erwin Schrodinger
