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“When that amusing "Pauli effect" of the overturned vase occurred, on the occasion of the founding of the Jung Institute, I had the immediate and vivid impression that I should "pour out water inside" . Then when the connection between psychology and physics took up a relatively large part of your talk, it became even more clear to me what I was to do. The outcome of all this is the enclosed essay.”

“God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil.”

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

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

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