'A selection of [Schrödinger's] more popular German lectures and essays. They had been translated by James Murphy, a defrocked Irish priest, who had enjoyed a picaresque career including a translation of Mein Kampf. Erwin met Murphy in Berlin in 1929 and in 1932 plans for the book were made at a café on the Unter den Linden. Despite some arguments between author and translator, the final result displays an urbane style and provides a cross-section of Schrödinger's ideas in easily readable form' (Moore, Schrödinger, Life and Thought, p. 302). Erwin Schrödinger: Nobel Prize, Physics, 1933.
