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)
The sun darkened.
The moon blood.
Stars fall to earth.
The sky rolled up.
The mountains and islands moved.
The great day of wrath.
Who shall stand?
The silence in heaven.
Half an hour of silence.
The seven angels with trumpets.
The censer cast to earth.
Voices, thunder, lightning, earthquake.
The first trumpet: hail and fire.
Mixed with blood.
The third part of trees burned.
All green grass.
The sea became blood.
The third part of sea creatures died.
Ships destroyed.
The third part of rivers wormwood.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).