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 solve them and write about them. The big problems came and passed by, others solved them and wrote about them. I was a classicist and not a revolutionary.


As quoted in Faust in Copenhagen (2007) by Gino Segrè, p. 130.5, which cites The Historical Development of Quantum Theory (1982) by Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg, vol 1 of 4, p. xxiv, and Inward Bound (1986) by Abraham Pais, p. 186

Wolfgang Pauli Quotes

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 solve...

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 solve...

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 solve...

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 solve...