Top 36 Pauli Wolfgang Quotes
#2. God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
Wolfgang Pauli
#3. Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
Wolfgang Pauli
#6. After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#7. One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
Wolfgang Pauli
#8. The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Wolfgang Pauli
#9. ... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine structure constant, a theoretical understanding of which is still missing today.
Wolfgang Pauli
#10. Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!
Wolfgang Pauli
#11. The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.
Wolfgang Pauli
#12. Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.
Wolfgang Pauli
#13. You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
Wolfgang Pauli
#15. For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
Wolfgang Pauli
#16. I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think.
Wolfgang Pauli
#17. A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.
Wolfgang Pauli
#19. I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
Wolfgang Pauli
#20. I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
Wolfgang Pauli
#21. I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.
Wolfgang Pauli
#23. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#24. How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?
Wolfgang Pauli
#25. It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality
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#27. This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian . [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
Wolfgang Pauli
#28. The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
Wolfgang Pauli
#29. The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.
Wolfgang Pauli
#30. The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.
Wolfgang Pauli
#31. There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers n, k1, k2 and m are the same. If an electron is present, for which these quantum numbers (in an external field) have definite values, then this state is 'occupied.'
Wolfgang Pauli
#32. A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?".
Wolfgang Pauli
#33. Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.
Wolfgang Pauli
#34. What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.
Wolfgang Pauli
#35. I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.
Wolfgang Pauli
#36. How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli)
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