Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time Quotes

“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?”
― Erwin Schrödinger, Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time

“I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time