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)
Rainbow on head, face as sun, feet pillars fire.
Sea and earth as lion roaring.
Seven thunders uttered voices.
The days of the voice of the seventh angel.
The kingdom of the world becomes kingdom of Lord.
The temple in heaven opened.
Lightning, voices, thunder, earthquake, hail.
The woman clothed with sun, moon under feet, crown twelve stars.
Cried travailing in birth.
The dragon stood before, devour child.
The child caught up to God.
The woman fled to wilderness, nourished 1260 days.
War in heaven, Michael and angels vs dragon.
The dragon cast out, tail drew third stars.
Devil and Satan cast to earth.
Salvation, power, kingdom come.
The dragon persecuted the woman.
The earth helped, opened mouth.
The dragon angry, went to make war with remnant.
The beast from sea, seven heads, ten horns.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).