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Wolfgang Pauli (1900 – 1958)


Austrian-Swiss physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1945.
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Wolfgang Pauli
The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.
Pauli quotes
If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
Pauli
It is always the older that emanates the new one.




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Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet.
Pauli Wolfgang
This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
Wolfgang Pauli quotes
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.
Wolfgang Pauli
In the new pattern of thought we do not assume any longer the detached observer, occurring in the idealizations of this classical type of theory, but an observer who by his indeterminable effects creates a new situation, theoretically described as a new state of the observed system. In this way every observation is a singling out of a particular factual result, here and now, from the theoretical possibilities, therefore making obvious the discontinuous aspect of physical phenomena.
Nevertheless, there remains still in the new kind of theory an objective reality, inasmuch as these theories deny any possibility for the observer to influence the result of a measurement, once the experimental arrangement is chosen. Therefore particular qualities of an individual observer do not enter into the conceptual framework of the theory.
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Das is nicht einmal falsch.
Pauli
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
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