Erwin Schrodinger Quotes


The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.


Citations

Schrödinger, Erwin. My View of the World. Translated by Cecily Hastings, Cambridge University Press, 1964, p. 28.

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Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger
  • Born: August 12, 1887
  • Died: January 4, 1961
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Profession: Scientist

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time.