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“swindle x swindle does not yield something correct”: Heisenberg to Pauli, December 15, 1924: PLC1 [76].
“complete insanity”: Bohr to Heisenberg, December 22, 1924: PLC1 [77].
“I would be the happiest man on earth”: Pauli to Bohr, December 31, 1924: PLC1 [79]. For detailed studies of Pauli’s discovery of the exclusion principle, see Heilbron (1983), Hendry (1984), Jammer (1966), Massimi (2005), Mehra (1982), and von Meyenn (1980, 1981).
“then will visualizability be regained”: Pauli to Bohr, December 12, 1924: PLC1 [74].
“indeed a witty idea”: Kronig (1960), p. 21.
Chapter 5 • Intermezzo—Three versus Four
“in spite of manifold variety”: Preface to the 1919 edition of Sommerfeld (1923), p. viii.
“somewhat Kabbalistic”: Sommerfeld (1923), p. 59.
“or the witches’ kitchen of Faust”: Andrade (1926), p. 708.
“For integers, go to Sommerfeld”: Interview with Heisenberg by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, October 30, 1962, p. 12; and Pauli (1948b), p. 65.
“Kepler’s magnum opus—Harmonices Mundi”: Pauli (1948b), p. 68.
he may well have read him in the original Latin: Pauli’s Latin was good enough to at least get the gist of Kepler’s text. He had studied Latin for eight years at the gymnasium with grades ranging over “very good,” “good,” and “sufficient.” I thank Karl von Meyenn for a copy of Pauli’s grades at the Döblinger Gymnasium.
“I, myself, am not only Kepler, but also Fludd”: Pauli to Fierz, January 19, 1953: PLC5 [1507].
“That was really the main work”: Pauli to Fierz, October 3, 1951: PLC4 [1286].
“philosophical problem connected with these numbers”: Pauli to Fierz, October 3, 1951: PLC4 [1286].
“origin of and development of concepts and theories”: Pauli (1952), p. 220.
“left a large sore”: Quoted from Koestler (1964), p. 233.
“pains of the bladder”: Quoted from Koestler (1964), p. 234.
“the planets which circle around him”: Quoted from Kuhn (1957), p. 131.
“such as one cannot find elsewhere”: Quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 91.
“Three, yet are they One”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 230.
“from the very beginnings of mankind”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 227.
“Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 223.
“imitate the sun”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 231.
“the true laws of planetary motion”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 232.
“for the creation of the universe”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 228.
“source and root of eternal Nature”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 141.
“divine ordinance”: Quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 62.
“Copernicus had told the truth”: Quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 62.
straighten it out in eight days: Caspar (1993), pp. 126–127.
the nova of 1604: What Kepler saw was, in fact, a supernova.
also fitted Mars’s measured eccentricity: Caspar (1993), p. 139.
and sea water its nourishment: Pauli (1952), p. 235.
which he believed to exist in nature: Kepler to von Wackenfels, 1618, quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 265.
“perceived by the intellect, not by the ear”: From Kepler’s Harmonices, quoted from Koestler (1964), p. 398.
“Misery and Famine reign on our planet”: Quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 284.
“for one to contemplate His works”: Quoted from Caspar (1993), p. 343.
“by means of pictures”: Quoted in Westman (1984), p. 179.
“comprehend the true core of natural bodies”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 251.
“mine is the task of the mathematician”: Quoted from Koestler (1964), p. 403.
“murky mirror of the world drawn underneath”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 244.
“triangle seen in the mirror of the world”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 244.
“kind of mystic primordial space”: Scholem (1941), p. 261. See also Dan (2006).
“This is alchemy in the best sense”: Pauli to Fierz, January 19, 1953: PLC5 [1507], p. 20.
“a world drawn in pictures”: Quoted from Westman (1984), p. 206.
“I am like a blind man”: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 252.
adds up to the magic number seven: Quoted from Pauli (1952), p. 270.
transformations that produce our world: Quoted from Pauli (1952), pp. 274–275.
“it is astonishing how much smoke