Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

We ascend the hill-tops of philosophy, not to gaze up at the ever-visible heavens, but to embrace in one grand view the human world beneath us.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

Tell me who I am. (29)

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.