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Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

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
Wait
Waiting
Comes
Everything

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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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It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.
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That's not right. That's not even wrong.
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If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
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God made the bulk the surface was invented by the devil.
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This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
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If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
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The 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.
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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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Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.
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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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It is always the older that emanates the new one.
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Later, 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.
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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.
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