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“For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.” quote by Wolfgang Pauli — Download Open image

“For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.”

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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…

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Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence…

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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.

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A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very…

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“Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.”

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One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

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The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

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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 painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e.…

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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…

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The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

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God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

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