The best Quotes by Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

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.

Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness.

I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.

This physicist goes into an ice cream parlor every week and orders an ice cream sundae for himself, and then offers one to the empty stool sitting next to him. This goes on for a while until the owner finally asks him what he's doing. The man says, "Well, I'm a physicist, and quantum mechanics teaches us, that it is possible for the matter above this stool to spontaneously turn into a beautiful woman who might accept my offer and fall in love with me." The owner then says, "Lots of single, beautiful women come in here ever day. Buy an ice cream for one of them, and they might fall in love with you." And the physicist says, "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?!"

Spent all these years to find out about the quantum realm and I found out that I know nothing.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Things never happen the same way twice.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Nature has to be felt.

I am not the least afraid to die.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.