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“ Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought. ”

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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

~ Erwin Schrödinger