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One shouldn't work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess who knows whether any semiconductors exist.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Wolfgang Pauli
Age: 58 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 25
Died: 1958
Died: December 15
Chemist
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
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Semiconductors
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Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
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It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.
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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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After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.
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That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
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The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
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I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.
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That's not right. That's not even wrong.
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This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
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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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