I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism … but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science.  
Miller Arthur I. Roth: Return of the World Soul Wolfgang Pauli C.

In 1945 after being nominated by Albert Einstein he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature the exclusion principle or Pauli principle" involving spin theory underpinning the structure of matter and the whole of chemistry.