Wolfgang Pauli Short Quotes

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I cannot believe God is a weak left-hander.

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Let no man join together what God hath put asunder.

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God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.

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I know a great deal. I know too much. I am a quantum ancient.

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When shown a paper by a young theoretician:
That is not even wrong.
In German: "nicht einmal falsch"

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Never work too closely with experimenters. Allow the results to settle.

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The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.

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I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

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

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I don't mind if you think slowly, Doctor. but I do mind if you publish faster than you think.

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The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

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One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

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The fact that XY thinks slowly is not serious, but that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

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I have committed the ultimate sin, I have predicted the existence of a particle that can never be observed.

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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.

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Both of us [seem] to agree that the future of Jung's ideas is not with [psycho-] therapy... but with a unitarian, holistic concept of nature and the position of man in it.

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The designation "Jungian Psychology" is actually already unscientific sectarianism. I only acknowledge C. G. Jung's contribution to the general psychology of the unconscious.

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Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics.

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Physics is a blind alley again. In any case, it has become too difficult for me, and I would prefer to be a comedian in the cinema, or something like that, and hear no more about physics.

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