cry for help
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:13:49 -0400
Well folks, I'm back after a few months in Berkeley & have a request. I recall
years ago reading of Pauli's response to the newspaper announcement of Heisenberg's
nonlinear unified field equation in which Heisenberg was quoted as saying that all the
problems of physics were now solved in principle and that it only remained to work out
the details. Pauli's comment in a letter to another colleague was a blank rectangle &
the caption, "I can paint like Titian. Only the details are missing."
The problem: I want to include this in the book I'm working on (the application
to overly optimistic claims about chemical evolution is obvious), but I can't recall &
can't locate a reference. I've tried Pauli's collected papers & the big Heisenberg bio.
Anybody recall coming across this & where? (I've probably quoted it on this list so if
you just have a vague recollectionit may be from that.)
Thanks,
George
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George L. Murphy
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