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)
Like leopard, feet bear, mouth lion.
The dragon gave power to beast.
One head wounded to death, healed.
All earth wondered after beast.
Mouth great things, blasphemies.
Power over saints given.
All not in book of life worship.
Another beast from earth, two horns like lamb.
Exercise power before first beast.
Make image to first beast.
Cause to kill not worship image.
Number of man, six hundred threescore six.
The harvest of earth.
The vintage of wrath.
The seven last plagues.
Noisome and grievous sore.
Sea blood, every living soul died.
Rivers and fountains blood.
The sun scorched with fire.
The throne of beast darkened.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).