{"id":3991,"date":"2007-12-22T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-erwin-schroedinger\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-erwin-schroedinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-erwin-schroedinger.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Erwin Schroedinger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cScience is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity of which we somehow form a part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God, with a capital \u201cG\u201d. Science is, very usually, branded as being atheistic. After what we have said this is not astonishing. If its world picture does not even contain beauty, delight, sorrow, if personality is cut out of it by agreement, how should it contain the most sublime idea that presents itself to the human mind\u201d<\/span> (Erwin Schroedinger, <em>My View Of The World<\/em>, Cambridge University Press, 1964, p.93; quoted in Antony Flew, <em>There Is A God<\/em>, Harper One, 2007, p.105).<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3934235001387364168?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cScience is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity of which we somehow form a part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God, with a capital \u201cG\u201d. Science is, very usually, branded as being atheistic. 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