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 Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share
Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.” — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
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… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
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