Comment by gradschoolfail

In the final paragraph, the author concurs with Goethe in 1796. LIFE=LIFE. Schroedinger, who must have been fully cognizant of what Goethe meant (need to check when I have access to my library), went on to then ask the obvious next question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F

Amusingly, he prefers the equation ATMAN = BRAHMAN

(See wikipedia article)