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)
Many men died.
The star named Wormwood.
The fourth trumpet: sun, moon, stars darkened.
The day not known.
The eagle flying: woe, woe, woe.
The fifth trumpet: star fallen, key to pit.
Locusts like scorpions.
Power to hurt men five months.
The sound of wings as chariots.
Faces as men, hair of women, teeth of lions.
Breastplates of iron, tails like scorpions.
The angel of the bottomless pit, Abaddon.
The sixth trumpet: four angels bound at Euphrates.
Two hundred million horsemen.
Fire, smoke, brimstone from mouths.
The third part of men killed.
The tails like serpents, hurt men.
The rest not killed, repented not.
Demons, not repent of works.
The little book open in hand of angel.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).