The great physicists of our century on their encounter with the wonderful. With contributions from David Bohm, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, James Jeans, Pascual Jordan, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. In this extraordinary collection of texts from the fathers of modern physics, we learn what the great physicists of our century have to say about the relationship between natural science and spirituality. The transcendence, or, to use Erwin Schrödinger's words, the overcoming of the dualism of thought and being or of spirit and matter, is the focus of the texts presented here by some of the greatest physicists of our time. Hans-Peter Dürr, successor to Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, serves as the editor of this book.