The physicist is familiar with the fact that the classical laws of physics are modified by quantum theory, especially at low temperature. There are m… - Erwin Schrödinger

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The physicist is familiar with the fact that the classical laws of physics are modified by quantum theory, especially at low temperature. There are many instances of this. Life seems to be one of them, a particularly striking one. Life seems to be orderly and lawful behaviour of matter, not based exclusively on its tendency to go over from order to disorder, but based partly on existing order that is kept up.

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About Erwin Schrödinger

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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Alternative Names: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger Erwin Schrodinger Erwin Schroedinger Schrödinger Schrodinger Ervinus Rudolphus Iosephus Alexandrus Schrödinger

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classical laws of physics are modified by quantum theory, especially at low temperature. There are many instances of this. Life seems to be one of them, a particularly striking one. Life seems to be orderly and lawful

Life seems to be orderly and lawful behaviour of matter, not based exclusively on its tendency to go over from order to disorder, but based partly on existing order that is kept up.

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You see from this again that an organism must have a comparatively gross structure in order to enjoy the benefit of fairly accurate laws,

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