Wolfgang Pauli
Formulated the exclusion principle
Most quoted
"When I was young, I thought I was the best formalist of my time. I thought I was a revolutionary. When the big problems would come, I would be the one to solve them. But then the great revolution came, it was Heisenberg and Dirac who made it. I was only a classicist."
— from Self-reflection
"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."
— from Letter to Markus Fierz, 1954
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
— from Attributed to Max Planck, but often quoted by Pauli in discussions of scientific change
All quotes by Wolfgang Pauli (673)
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
Not only is it not right, it is not even wrong.
There is no hope; it will be much more complicated than this.
The Pauli effect is the spontaneous manifestation of inexplicable occurrences whenever Pauli is around.
God is a weak left-hander.
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
In the history of physics, there comes a time when the deformation of concepts in a domain of theory which has enjoyed free growth is the best sign that the old frame of concepts must be revised.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
The statistical interpretation is the only one which can give an objective description of quantum phenomena.
It is my conviction that if the Pauli principle is valid, then the neutrino must exist.
The exclusion principle is nothing but the expression of the general fact that two similar systems cannot be in the same state.
Quantum mechanics has taught us that the classical notion of 'reality' is only an approximation.
I refuse to recognize the existence of the neutrino until I have seen it with my own eyes.
The theory of relativity is a theory of invariants.
In quantum theory, the observer plays a fundamental role.
The unconscious is deeper than the conscious.
Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.
The psyche is as much a natural phenomenon as the body.
Archetypes are the primordial images of the collective unconscious.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).