Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. Wolfgang Pauli More Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli More Quotes From Wolfgang Pauli From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be possible to write the conclusion if a theory will be established which will determine the value of the fine structure constant and will thus explain the atomistic structure of electricity, which is such an essential quality of all atomic sources of electric fields actually occurring in nature. Wolfgang Pauli viewswritingbelieve It is not only not right, it is not even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge. Wolfgang Pauli understanding-natureplatomen This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing. Wolfgang Pauli detailsdrawingmissing Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him. Wolfgang Pauli religiousbelievethinking It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced. Wolfgang Pauli spacetworeality The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws. Wolfgang Pauli uniquelawscience One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist. Wolfgang Pauli semiconductorsmessfilthy After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: Wolfgang Pauli readingpaperscience There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all the quantum numbers n, k1, k2 and m are the same. If an electron is present, for which these quantum numbers (in an external field) have definite values, then this state is 'occupied.' Wolfgang Pauli strongtwoscience Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied. Wolfgang Pauli fantasyarbitrarydream That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! Wolfgang Pauli worthlesstheoryscience The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4. Wolfgang Pauli jungtwofacts It is always the older that emanates the new one. Wolfgang Pauli emanate It isn't right. It isn't even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. Wolfgang Pauli insulthumorouswitty If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet. Wolfgang Pauli prophetatheismdoubt
