31 Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they’re not science; they don’t even rise to the level of being wrong.

Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is: ‘There is no God and Dirac is His prophet.’

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

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

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

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

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.

Why did the chicken cross the road? there already was a chicken on this side of the road.

It is always the older that emanates the new one.