Top 53 Quotes About Pauli
#1. After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#2. The founders and grand theorists of modern (quantum and relativity) physics: Einstein, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, Eddington, Pauli, de Broglie, Jeans, and Planck.
Ken Wilber
#3. How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli)
Manjit Kumar
#4. It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf
#5. Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress
Gunter Pauli
#6. I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.
Wolfgang Pauli
#7. I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
Wolfgang Pauli
#8. I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.
Wolfgang Pauli
#9. 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
#10. In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.
Pauli Murray
#12. We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.
Gunter Pauli
#14. If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
#15. How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?
Wolfgang Pauli
#16. Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it
Gunter Pauli
#17. It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality
Wolfgang Pauli
#19. 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
#20. The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
Wolfgang Pauli
#21. 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
#23. The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.
Wolfgang Pauli
#24. 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
#25. Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.
Pauli Murray
#26. 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
#27. Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.
Wolfgang Pauli
#28. 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
#29. Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.
Pauli Murray
#31. God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
Wolfgang Pauli
#32. Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
Wolfgang Pauli
#33. True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.
Pauli Murray
#36. One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
Wolfgang Pauli
#37. The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Wolfgang Pauli
#38. ... 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
#39. People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.
Gunter Pauli
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
Gunter Pauli
#43. 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
#44. You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
Wolfgang Pauli
#46. For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.
Wolfgang Pauli
#47. I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think.
Wolfgang Pauli
#48. 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
#49. What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
Pauli Murray
#50. Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow
Gunter Pauli
#53. One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.
Pauli Murray
