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1 " Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provoke a universal protest: " Why me?" Be sure that this is not a question but an outcry. The person who screams it has been instilled with an astonishing suspicion that he, in fact, has been the perfect subject for a very specific " weird," a tailor-made fate, and that a prior engagement, in all its weirdness, was fulfilled at the appointed time and place. "
2 " The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics. We believe that any regression to the ideas of classical physics (as, for instance, to the use of the classical field concept)cannot bring us nearer to this goal. To reach it, we shall, presumably, have to pay with further revolutionary changes of the fundamental concepts of physics with a still farther digression from the concepts of the classical theories. "
― Wolfgang Pauli , Writings on Physics and Philosophy
