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 shekinah is the feminine aspect of God.
Tikkun olam is the repair of the world.
The golem is a creation of man.
Messianic times are near.
The Zohar reveals hidden truths.
Sefirot are the vessels of light.
The breaking of the vessels explains evil.
Sparks of divinity are in all things.
The soul descends and ascends.
Gilgul is reincarnation.
The tzaddik is the righteous one.
Prayer elevates the soul.
Torah is the blueprint of creation.
The letters of the alphabet are sacred.
Gematria unlocks meanings.
The shevirat ha-kelim is the shattering.
Lurianic Kabbalah is profound.
The partzufim are configurations.
Adam Kadmon is the primordial man.
The worlds are four: Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah, Asiyah.
Contemporaries of Wolfgang Pauli
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).