It is in fact wonderful how physics — as soon as it is concerned not with technical purposes but with general results — without knowing it gets into cosmogony, astrology, theosophy, or whatever you wish to call it, in short, into a mystic discipline of the whole.

Translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Talk on Mythology (p. 90), The Pennsylvania State University Press. University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. 1968