Erwin Schrödinger

1887–1961 · Austrian physicist

Topics: physics, biology

• The laws of physics and chemistry are statistical throughout.

  — Erwin Schrödinger

• PHYSICAL LAWS REST ON ATOMIC STATISTICS AND ARE THEREFORE ONLY APPROXIMATE

  — Erwin Schrödinger

• It is these chromosomes … that contain in some kind of code-script the entire pattern of the individual's future development and of its functioning in the mature state. Every complete set of chromosomes contains the full code...

  — Erwin Schrödinger

• [W]e never experiment with just one electron or atom or (small) molecule. In thought-experiments we sometimes assume that we do.

  — Erwin Schrödinger