31 Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli

One should no more rack one’s brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.

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

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!

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

One shouldn’t work on semiconductors, that is a filthy mess; who knows whether any semiconductors exist.

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says ‘universal’ it just means pure nonsense.

I refuse to believe that God is a weak left-hander.

That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong!