When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.
It is not only not right, it is not even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli
It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli
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 nev… - Wolfgang Pauli
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 nev…
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli
If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
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 … - Wolfgang Pauli
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 …
You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid. - Wolfgang Pauli
You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level. - Wolfgang Pauli
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Everything comes to him who knows how to wait. - Wolfgang Pauli
Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil. - Wolfgang Pauli
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. - Wolfgang Pauli
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
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