Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them.

Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.