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.
Wolfgang PauliThe fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.
Wolfgang PauliWell, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
Wolfgang Pauli