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 world is a drama staged by the archetypes.
Physics and psychology are two sides of the same coin.
I have done a terrible thing: I have stabilized the archetype of the 'wise old man'.
The neutrino is so small that it can pass through a mile of lead without hitting anything.
In the beginning, God created the Pauli principle.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.
The development of physics lies in the understanding of the unconscious.
I am not a positivist, but I believe in the reality of the quantum world.
The complementarity principle is the key to understanding quantum mechanics.
What God has put together, let no man put asunder.
The field concept is indispensable in modern physics.
Relativity and quantum mechanics are the two pillars of modern physics.
The soul is the bridge between matter and spirit.
In dreams, the archetypes reveal themselves.
The mandala is a symbol of wholeness.
Physics without psychology is incomplete.
The exclusion principle governs the structure of matter.
I regret that I have but one life to give to physics.
The neutrino hypothesis was born out of necessity.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).