10 quotes from Erwin Schroedinger, who was born on this date in 1887:
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves.
Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.
If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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