The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

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."

Erwin Schrodinger

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

Erwin Schrodinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrodinger

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.

Erwin Schrodinger

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

Erwin Schrodinger

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

Erwin Schrodinger

Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.

Erwin Schrodinger

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.

Erwin Schrodinger

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Erwin Schrodinger

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

Erwin Schrodinger

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Erwin Schrodinger

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrodinger

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrodinger

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

Erwin Schrodinger

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

Erwin Schrodinger