Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes


It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.


Citations

Pauli, Wolfgang. "The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler." The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, by C. G. Jung and W. Pauli, Pantheon Books, 1955, p. 210.

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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
  • Born: April 25, 1900
  • Died: December 15, 1958
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian (and later American / Swiss) theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.