What Is Life?

"Open your mind more than science fiction. A fascinating science book.

一部比科幻小说更令你脑洞大开的科普著作

Erwin Schrödinger opened the door to science for the general reader-step through it, and you will be unable to suppress your curiosity about this world!

In 1943, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger delivered a series of lectures at Trinity College Dublin, aiming to explore the physical basis of life. These were later compiled into a book. A young man named Watson read it, found profound inspiration, and decided to shift his research focus. In 1962, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. That book was What Is Life?. In 1991, upon reading it, the British physicist Roger Penrose-often mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Hawking-remarked that this book was "well worth reading and rereading."

In 1956, Schrödinger gave another series of lectures, this time at Trinity College Cambridge, discussing topics such as the material basis of consciousness, whether mind has an evolutionary direction, the relationship between science and religion, and the mystery of perception. These were later published as Mind and Matter. To this day, the ideas discussed in the book continue to inspire leading thinkers and biologists around the world...

What is life? What is consciousness? What does it mean to be human? What does the future hold for humanity?... Follow in Schrödinger's footsteps, and you will enter a new and fascinating world.

薛定谔为普通读者打开的科学大门，进入它，你将无法抑制自己对这个世界的好奇！

1943年，诺贝尔物理学奖获得者埃尔温·薛定谔在都柏林圣三一学院做了一个系列演讲，旨在探讨生命的物质基础，并集结成书。一个叫沃森的年轻人看到这本书，深受启发，决定改变自己的研究方向，1962年，他获得了诺贝尔生理或医学奖。这本书，就是《生命是什么》。1991年，与霍金齐名的英国物理学家彭罗斯读到此书后说：这本书"确实值得一读再读"。

1956年，薛定谔在剑桥三一学院做了另一个系列演讲，讨论意识的物质基础、心智是否有进化的趋势、科学与宗教、感官之谜等问题，后集结成《意识和物质》一书。迄今为止，书中讨论的观点，仍启发着国内外一流的思想家、生物学家......

生命是什么？意识是什么？人是什么？人类的未来会怎样......跟随薛定谔的步伐，你将走进一个崭新而迷人的世界。