The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
Interpretation
The author highlights the importance of thoughtful consideration over hastily sharing ideas.
Wolfgang Pauli's quote emphasizes the need for depth and reflection when producing written work, suggesting that while having a slow thought process may not be problematic, rushing to publish without adequate consideration can lead to poor quality contributions. This statement serves as a reminder that quality often outweighs quantity in the realm of intellectual output.
In practice
In a writing workshop, to encourage participants to prioritize depth in their manuscripts.
The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.
That's not right. That's not even wrong.
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.
I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
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