Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes
That's not right. That's not even wrong.
Peierls, Rudolf. Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist. Princeton University Press, 1985, p. 43.
This quotation illustrates a scientific principle that is at the heart of several political issues. Specifically the debate over whether creationism should be taught in science classes along with evolution. The major reason that almost all serious scientists (religious and secular both) oppose teaching creationism is that it is not a “falsifiable” set of statements—that is there is no way to prove it or disprove it. There are scientific statements that can be proved or disproved but have not yet been so. To be a scientific statement, it must be falsifiable—logically provable or disprovable. And this is the logic which the Federal Courts have used in ruling that creationism may not be taught in science classes in public schools. This quotation, Pauli is saying that the paper is not falsifiable—it cannot be proved and cannot be refuted. As such it is not scientific and belongs in the realm of philosophy, literature, theology, or other disciplines, but not science. An example of non-falsifiable statements are: “Blue is the most attractive color.”; “Freedom is essential to capitalism”; “Monarchy is more efficient than theocracy”.
He was known as “The Christian Cicero” because of his rhetoric. He contributed little original Christian thought but communicated it more so than anyone had done before. Interestingly, the early church fathers did not see the concept of a round earth as heretical—just absurd. When the idea began to be seen as potentially serious heresy would be almost 1000 years later.
General Prim, a Progressive Catalan, commented after the end of Isabel II’s reign that finding a king to rule constitutionally would be near impossible.
Haig was generally not terribly eloquent but he was very well read. “Terminological inexactitude” was coined by Winston Churchill. See {625509} .
Some politicians have subsequently used the phrase. For example, see {625508} .
He was the leader of the team that followed to invading troops into Iraq to find the nuclear and other WMDs that the CIA had said were deployed and ready to be used. They found none. Worse for the CIA, there were not even any development programs ongoing. The CIA Director was furious with Kay for admitting the CIA gross error. Kay was given minor assignments thereafter even though he was the best WMD analyst we had.
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.
