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WHAT IS LIFE?
ERWIN SCHRODINGER
First published 1944

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What Is Life? Mind and Matter
Author: Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1944
Pages: 194
ISBN 0521427088

Schrödinger states on page one, chapter one, that the entire lecture will focus on one important question, namely "how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?" He continues, "the preliminary answer which this little book will endeavor to expound and establish can be summarized as follows: the obvious inability of present-day physics and chemistry to account for such events is no reason at all for doubting that they can be accounted for by those scientists."
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