"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."

- Pope Paul VI

"I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."

- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

- Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)