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Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

Born 12 August 1887 · Died 4 January 1961

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schroedinger or Erwin Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized 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. --Wikipedia

Quotes

  • “Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
    p. 91
  • “Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.”
    Nature and the Greeks
  • “In particular, and most importantly, this is the reason why the scientific worldview contains of itself no ethical values, no esthetical values, not a word about our own ultimate scope or destination, and no God, if you please. Whence came I and whither go I?”
    Nature and the Greeks
  • “If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed.”
    On the conditions of the "Schrödinger's cat" thought-experiment, as presented in
  • “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.”
    Mind and Matter

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Books by Erwin Schrödinger in order

Books by Erwin Schrödinger in the order they were published, from Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics (1927) to Yasam Nedir ?; « Zihin Ve Madde » Ve « ''Otobiyografik Denemeler'' Ile Birlikte (2018).

  1. 1Collected Papers on Wave MechanicsCollected Papers on Wave Mechanics1927
  2. 2Four Lectures on Wave MechanicsFour Lectures on Wave Mechanics1928
  3. 3Science and Human TemperamentScience and Human Temperament1935
  4. 4Science Theory and ManScience Theory and Man1935
  5. 5(1) Exchange and Spin(1) Exchange and Spin1941
  6. 6Statistical ThermodynamicsStatistical Thermodynamics1944
  7. 7What Is Life?What Is Life?1944
  8. 8Space-time StructureSpace-time Structure1950
  9. 9My View of the WorldMy View of the World1951
  10. 10Science and HumanismScience and Humanism1951
  11. 11Studies in the Non-symmetric Generalisation of the Theory ofStudies in the Non-symmetric Generalisation of the Theory of Gravitation I1951
  12. 12Studies in the Non-symmetric Generalization of the Theory ofStudies in the Non-symmetric Generalization of the Theory of Gravitation I1951
  13. 13What Is Matter?What Is Matter?1953
  14. 14Nature and the GreeksNature and the Greeks1954
  15. 15Mind and MatterMind and Matter1958
  16. 16Il classicismoIl classicismo1962
  17. 17Gesammelte Abhandlungen =Gesammelte Abhandlungen =1984
  18. 18The Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsThe Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics1995
  19. 19'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism''Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'1996
  20. 20Cambridge Harper Collins What Is Life?Cambridge Harper Collins What Is Life?2015
  21. 21Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics, Delivered at the Royal InstFour Lectures on Wave Mechanics, Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on 5th, 7th, 12th, and 14th March 19282018
  22. 22Yasam Nedir ?; « Zihin Ve Madde » Ve « ''Otobiyografik DenemYasam Nedir ?; « Zihin Ve Madde » Ve « ''Otobiyografik Denemeler'' Ile Birlikte2018

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