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 great river Euphrates dried.
Kings of east.
The great earthquake.
Cities fell, islands fled, mountains not found.
Men blasphemed God.
The marriage supper of the Lamb.
The fine linen is righteousness.
The armies in heaven.
The beast and kings gathered.
The beast taken, cast into lake fire.
The dragon bound thousand years.
Satan loosed after.
Gog and Magog.
Fire from heaven.
The devil cast into lake fire.
The great white throne.
Dead small great stand before God.
The book of life.
Second death.
New heaven new earth.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).