The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Erwin SchrodingerThe essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
Erwin SchrodingerOur mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
Erwin SchrodingerWhat we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
Erwin Schrodinger[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.
Erwin SchrodingerThe plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.
Erwin Schrodinger