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“The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...”

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Erwin Schrodinger

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. more

“There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.”

Kind Lying Individual Consciousness Conflict Solutions Ancient Available Construction Constructs Framework Ancient Wisdom

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.”

“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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Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.”

Mind Multiplicity

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

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

“In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.”

Honest Ignorance Periods Search For Knowledge

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.”

World Whole Might Chance Hell Obvious Whole World

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.”

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Author:Werner Heisenberg

“My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.”

Mind Philosophy Study Plato Studying Philosophy

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”

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Book:Across the frontiers

Source: Across the frontiers

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