Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes
You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
Pauli, Wolfgang. Quoted in No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli, by Charles P. Enz, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 43.
Actually “normalcy” was not a theory but a slogan or a codeword. See {624061}.
This quotation was a milestone on scientific and technological development. For the first time in human history the smartest and most creative and visionary people, could not understand or comprehend the direction in which science and technology was moving. It now took people with specialized mathematical capability. Experience and intuitive insight was actually counter-productive in understanding the world as it was being revealed. Intelligence, creativity, perseverance and hard work, for the first time was insufficient. Education and training was the new requirement in addition to the others.
Although Einstein never accepted the political positions offered to him, had had many of the skills of able politicians including the visage he presented to cameras.
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.
