Friday, August 12, 2011 at 11:49AM
Drew Wolfe

Erwin Schrodinger

 

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors . . . This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

We are never in a position to say what really is or what really happens, but we can only say what will be observed in any concrete individual case. In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

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