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God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
Wolfgang Pauli -
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
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To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.
Wolfgang Pauli -
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Wolfgang Pauli -
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.
Wolfgang Pauli -
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
Wolfgang Pauli -
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!
Wolfgang Pauli -
The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
Wolfgang Pauli