Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, “You look very unhappy”; whereupon I answered fiercely, “How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?”.

Beautiful

Thinking

Unhappy

Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like “as such.” 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.

Knowing

Psychics

Spiritual

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.

Believe

Religious

Thinking

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

Know How

Knows

Waiting

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says ‘universal’ it just means pure nonsense.

Mean

Nonsense

Science

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

Despondency

Effects

Thinking

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism … but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

Different

Inspiration

Sometimes

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

Done

Particles

Terrible

I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.

Believe

Left Handers

Weak

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they’re not science; they don’t even rise to the level of being wrong.

Can Not

Ideas

Levels

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Beautiful

Believe

Can Not

Despondency

Different

Done

Effects

Emanate

Events

Facts

Guiding Principles

Humorous

Ideas

Inspiration

Insult

Know How

Knowing

Knows

Law

Left Handers

Levels

Mean

Nonsense

Particles

Prophet

Psychics

Reality

Religious

Roles

Said

Science

Sometimes

Space

Spiritual

Stupid

Terrible

There Is No God

Thinking

Two

Unhappy

Unique

Views

Waiting

Weak

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Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, “You look very unhappy”; whereupon I answered fiercely, “How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?”.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says ‘universal’ it just means pure nonsense.

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism … but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they’re not science; they don’t even rise to the level of being wrong.

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