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Re:Pauli Effect by jheriko on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:57PM (#11799145)
so even the smartest of us are susceptible to magical thinking and superstition it seems... :)
Re:Pauli Effect by Inlinked on Monday May 30, 2016 @10:19AM (#11801451)
Once you start looking for it, it becomes fairly common :)

August Kekulé's work on the structure of benzene came to him in a dream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9#The_ourobor...

Ramanujan credited his mathematical skills to a Goddess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Personalit...

When Einstein met Tagore, "Einstein: Then I am more religious than you are!": https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-t...

Pierre Curie: "There is here, in my opinion, a whole domain of entirely new facts and physical states in space of which we have no conception." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Curie#Research

Kurt Gödel proved God exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_pro...

And take a look at the recent popularity of Discordianism and Thelema among programmers.

Re:Pauli Effect by Etheryte on Monday May 30, 2016 @12:50AM (#11799609)
On the contrary, if you read further into it you will find he worked to find a scientifically provable reason for the phenomenon.
Re:Pauli Effect by fizx on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:01AM (#11799986)
Isaac Newton was an alchemist and an occultist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...

Re:Pauli Effect by mannykannot on Monday May 30, 2016 @08:38AM (#11800997)
There is also Bohr's horseshoe, an amusing way to have it both ways: http://laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/miscellany/niels-boh...