This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in a single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula, Tat tvam asi (that is you).
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"The world is not a machine, but a living organism."
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances)!"
"If you ask a theoretical physicist today, ‘What is an electron?’ he will probably say, ‘It is a symbol in the wave equation.’ We have got so far from the concrete picture of nature."
"I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth."
"The world is a symphony, and we are the instruments."
Austrian physicist who shared the 1933 Nobel for the wave equation that bears his name and the famous cat thought-experiment. Closely associated with Werner Heisenberg (matrix-mechanics rival who reached the same physics by different math) and Albert Einstein (his pen-pal on quantum interpretation). For an intellectual contrast, see Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and architect of the Copenhagen interpretation — Schrödinger's cat thought-experiment was specifically designed to ridicule Bohr's 'observer-dependent reality' reading of quantum mechanics — Schrödinger thought the Copenhagen interpretation was absurd; the cat was meant as reductio ad absurdum.
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell & Mind and Matter
Date: 1944 (What is Life?), 1958 (Mind and Matter)
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Your individual life is not just a small fragment of reality but somehow contains the whole of existence itself. The catch is that this wholeness cannot be perceived all at once from a single perspective. Ancient Hindu sages captured this paradox in three Sanskrit words, Tat tvam asi, meaning 'that is you', pointing to a hidden identity between the personal self and the totality of being.
Schrodinger pioneered wave mechanics in 1926, then spent decades pondering consciousness and unity in works like What Is Life? and My View of the World. He read the Upanishads obsessively, kept a Sanskrit notebook, and concluded that the multiplicity of minds is illusory. His quantum equations described smeared, non-local wholes, mirroring his metaphysical conviction that one consciousness underlies every observer.
Writing mid-twentieth century amid quantum revolution, two world wars, and rising atomic anxiety, Schrodinger watched physics dissolve classical certainties about separate objects. Western intellectuals were discovering Eastern philosophy through Schopenhauer, the Theosophists, and translations of Vedantic texts. After fleeing Nazi Austria to Dublin, he sought a unifying worldview that reconciled scientific reductionism with the felt unity of life, resisting both materialism and sectarian religion.
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