"An enlightening look into the mind of one of the most thoughtful and eclectic intellects to ever live."
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2008-11-27
Section Biography / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Nima R.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780521090483
A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrödinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logical deduction. But he also insists that this is true of the belief in an external world capable of influencing the mind and of being influenced by it. Schrödinger's world view leads naturally to a philosophy of reverence for life.