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.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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