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1887–1961 Austria
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real.
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.
My View of the World (1951)
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular.
Sensations and thoughts do not belong to the "world of energy."
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors … This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else?
Seek for the Road (1925)
Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.
Mind and Matter (1958)
Some blood transfusion from the East to the West is a must to save Western science from spiritual anaemia.
Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion.
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.
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
The observing mind is not a physical system, it cannot interact with any physical system.
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
The scientific world-picture vouchsafes a very complete understanding of all that happens — it makes it just a little too understandable.
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
'Tat tvam asi' — this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.'
There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.
Mind and Matter (1958)
I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.
In physics we have dealt hitherto only with periodic crystals.
What Is Life? (1944)
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.
My View of the World (1951)
\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t} = -\frac{2 \pi i}{h} E \psi
We are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual cae.
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