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1900–1958 Austria
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
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When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of "symbolic images."
Letter to Markus Fierz (1948)
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.
I cannot believe God is a weak left-hander.
That is why society is in such danger whenever fresh knowledge threatens to explode the old spiritual forms.
At the dawn of religion, all the knowledge of a particular community fitted into a spiritual framework, based largely on religious values and ideas.
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.
This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian … Only technical details are missing.
One shouldn’t work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
The failure of the many attempts to measure terrestrially any effects of the earth’s motion...
Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws.
It is always the older that emanates the new one.
The deepest pleasure in science comes from finding an instantiation, a home, for some deeply felt, deeply held image.
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.
There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
The purely psychological interpretation only apprehends half of the matter. The other half is the revealing of the archetypal basis of the terms actually applied in modern physics.
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