Erwin Schrodinger

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any 'new force' or what not, directing the behaviour of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

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

Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

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

The present is the only thing that has no end.