Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.
Erwin SchrodingerFrom all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.
Erwin SchrodingerThe world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
Erwin SchrodingerWhat we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
Erwin SchrodingerThe sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
Erwin SchrodingerIn this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.
Erwin Schrodinger