Frases de Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

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“No me importa que piense usted despacio, lo que me importa es que publique más rápidamente de lo que piensa”

“Verán, lo que ha dicho el Sr. Einstein, en realidad, no es tan tonto”

“Qué raro. A mí me pasa lo contrario con usted.”

“En absoluto, en absoluto. Sus ideas son tan confusas que no puedo decir si son absurdas o no”

“Lo que Dios ha separado no lo puede volver a unir el hombre.”

“No puedo creer que Dios sea un débil zurdo.”

“Modern 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.”

“The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.”

“Already in my original paper I stressed the circumstance that I was unable to give a logical reason for the exclusion principle or to deduce it from more general assumptions. I had always the feeling, and I still have it today, that this is a deficiency.”

“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.”