Schrodinger Quotes

“When {Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists} first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate and to really do things with matrices. So they had gone to Hilbert for help and Hilbert said the only time he had ever had anything to do with matrices was when they came up as a sort of by-product of the eigenvalues of the boundary-value problem of a differential equation. So if you look for the differential equation which has these matrices you can probably do more with that. They had thought it was a goofy idea and that Hilbert didn't know what he was talking about. So he was having a lot of fun pointing out to them that they could have discovered Schrödinger’s wave mechanics six month earlier if they had paid a little more attention to him.”
― Edward Uhler Condon

“He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.”
― Walter J. Moore, Schrodinger: Life and Thought

“He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...”
― Walter J. Moore, Schrodinger: Life and Thought

“There it is," he'd say reverentially. "The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make believe.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Danny knew well what is important about a story, and that they were structurally overdue for a disaster; as tragedy waits with comedy on the same coin. Life is just about finding the balance in between. It’s that span of time, while the coin is still spinning in the air, and hasn’t quite landed yet; Schrodinger’s penny. We take the good and prepare for the bad. It's like a rollercoaster ride where we hold the handles while climbing the rails, and throw our hands up as we descend, to feel the rush of wind against our skin and blowing through our hair.
Flip that coin, ride that ride.
We must find the little comforts. Insatiable as they may be, it’s important to feed our illusions.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction