Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet.
Wolfgang PauliYes, yes, our friend Dirac has a religion, and its creed runs: "There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet."
Wolfgang PauliOur friend Dirac has a religion; and the main tenet of that religion is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
Wolfgang PauliYes, our friend Dirac has a religion, and the basic postulate of this religion is: "There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet."
Wolfgang PauliWell, well, our friend Dirac has a religion, and its guiding principle is: "There is no God, and Dirac is His prophet.
Wolfgang PauliI have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
Wolfgang PauliWhen that amusing "Pauli effect" of the overturned vase occurred, on the occasion of the founding of the Jung Institute, I had the immediate and vivid impression that I should " pour out water inside " ( to use the symbolic language that I have acquired from you). Then when the connection between psychology and physics took up a relatively large part of your talk, it became even more clear to me what I was to do. The outcome of all this is the enclosed essay.
Wolfgang PauliLater, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.
Wolfgang PauliThe layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.
Wolfgang PauliIt 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.
Wolfgang PauliAlthough 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.
Wolfgang Pauli"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.
Wolfgang PauliIt is always the older that emanates the new one.
Wolfgang PauliThe best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Wolfgang PauliThis isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
Wolfgang PauliDas is nicht einmal falsch.
Wolfgang PauliI don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
Wolfgang PauliGod made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.
Wolfgang PauliThe setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.
Wolfgang PauliA 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?”.
Wolfgang PauliModern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.
Wolfgang PauliOne shouldn’t work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
Wolfgang PauliModern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato, interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato, looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.
Wolfgang PauliThis is to show the world that I can paint like Titian . [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
Wolfgang Pauli