Max Planck — "The ultimate goal of all science is to understand the universe."

"I am convinced that the world is governed by laws of a mathematical nature."

"The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is beli…"

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul."

"There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other."

"The highest aim of physics is to find the one all-embracing law which governs all natural phenomena."