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)
Quantum field theory is the future of physics.
The observer effect is not an illusion; it is fundamental.
Life is a journey through the collective unconscious.
The Tao of physics is the unity of opposites.
Particles are excitations of the field.
I have always been fascinated by the number 137.
The fine structure constant is a mystery.
Symmetry is the key to understanding nature.
The spin of the electron is intrinsic.
Causality is an illusion in the quantum world.
The archetypes are eternal.
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
The self is the center of the psyche.
Individuation is the process of becoming whole.
The shadow must be integrated.
Anima and animus are the bridges to the opposite sex.
The collective unconscious unites humanity.
Synchronicity defies causality.
The Pauli-Jung conjecture links mind and matter.
Physics is the study of the manifestation of the psyche.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).