Quantum Chemistry and Computing for the Curious

Chapter 4: Molecular Hamiltonians

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

– Wolfgang Pauli

Figure 4.1 – Wolfgang Pauli reaching for a deeper understanding of the antisymmetry related to fermionic spin [authors]

At the end of Wolfgang Pauli's 1946 Nobel lecture [Pauli] he states:

"I may express my critical opinion, that a correct theory should neither lead to infinite zero-point energies nor to infinite zero charges, that it should not use mathematical tricks to subtract infinities or singularities, nor should it invent a hypothetical world which is only a mathematical fiction ...