Erwin Schrodinger

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it well enough.

The future is uncertain, but that is precisely what makes it interesting.

We are all stardust.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

The only constant in life is change.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon...

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture.

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

Needless to say, taken literally, this is just as absurd. For an adult organism the energy content is as stationary as the material content. Since, surely, any calorie is worth as much as any other calorie, one cannot see how a mere exchange could help.