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Hence 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 … - Erwin Schrödinger
" "Hence 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 one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world'.
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to new striving and suffering. And not merely 'some day': now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger
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Erwin Schrodinger
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Erwin Schroedinger
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Schrödinger
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Schrodinger
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Ervinus Rudolphus Iosephus Alexandrus Schrödinger
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."
This life of yours which you are living is not merely apiece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi , this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.
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(...) porque os átomos são tão pequenos? Para começar, eles são mesmo muito pequenos. Toda pequena porção de matéria manuseada na vida cotidiana contém um número enorme deles. Muitos exemplos foram desenvolvidos para dar ao público uma ideia disso, nenhum mais impressionante que o usado por Lord Kelvin: suponha que você pudesse marcar as moléculas em um copo d'água; coloque então o conteúdo do copo no oceano e agite este de forma a poder distribuir as moléculas uniformemente pelos sete mares; se você, então, pegasse um copo d'água de qualquer lugar do oceano, encontraria nele cerca de 100 de suas moléculas marcadas
From Delbrück’s general picture of the hereditary substance it emerges that living matter, while not eluding the ‘laws of physics’ as established up to date, is likely to involve ‘other laws of physics’ hitherto unknown, which, however, once they have been revealed, will form just as integral a part of this science as the former.
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