“Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his… — 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
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. ( There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet .) { A… — 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… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
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
