It is not only not right, it is not even 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.

- 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 …

- 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

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

- Wolfgang Pauli

You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.

- Wolfgang Pauli

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

- Wolfgang Pauli

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

- Wolfgang Pauli

I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

- Wolfgang Pauli