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Quotes from Science and Humanism — Erwin Schrödinger

1887–1961 Austria

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I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am.

Science and Humanism (1951)

Our burning question as to the whence and whither — all we can ourselves observe about it is the present environment.

Science and Humanism (1951)

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Science and Humanism (1951)

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

Science and Humanism (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erwin Schrödinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.