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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.
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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. What the final method of observation must see in the production of "background physics" through the unconscious of modern man is a directing of objective toward a future description of nature that uniformly comprises physis and psyche, a form of description that at the moment we are experiencing only in a prescientific phase. To achieve such a uniform description of nature, it appears to be essential to have recourse to the archetypal background of the scientific terms and concepts.
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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.
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Already in my original paper I stressed the circumstance that I was unable to give a logical reason for the exclusion principle or to deduce it from more general assumptions. I had always the feeling, and I still have it today, that this is a deficiency.
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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.'
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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?.
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God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.
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The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.
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Wolfgang Pauli
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Born:
April 25, 1900
Died:
December 15, 1958
(aged 58)
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian-born Swiss and American theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.
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Atom and archetype
Writings on Physics and Philosophy
General Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1958)
Selected Topics in Field Quantization
The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche (1955)
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