Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

No sense makes sense.

Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.

That's not right. That's not even wrong.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

It is to believed because it is absurd.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.