Friendship Quote by Wolfgang Pauli

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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

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

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

— Wolfgang Pauli