From Richard Pech
I have been researching the source of a quote attributed to the physicist Erwin Schrödinger: “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” It is often used in physics articles.
It appears that this quote is also attributed to the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s 1952 Problems of Life has been cited as a source attributing Schrödinger as the author, but on page 1 it attributes the quote to Schopenhauer. Is this a case of a superposition of Sch’s? Does anyone know the real source of this quote?
Melbourne, Australia
