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 universe is psychoid.
Numbers are archetypes of order.
The Kabbalah holds secrets of creation.
Alchemy is the projection of the unconscious onto matter.
The philosopher's stone is the self.
Transformation is the goal of life.
The quaternions reveal the structure of the psyche.
Four is the number of wholeness.
The trinity is incomplete without the fourth.
God is not three, but fourfold.
The world egg symbolizes creation.
Myth is the precursor of science.
Religion and science are complementary.
The devil is the personification of the shadow.
Christ is the archetype of the self.
The fish symbol is ancient.
The uroboros represents eternity.
The tree of life connects heaven and earth.
The sephiroth are emanations of the divine.
Ein Sof is the infinite.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).