Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Was mich eigentlich interessiert, ist, ob Gott die Welt hätte anders machen können; das heisst, ob die Forderung der logischen Einfachheit überhaupt eine Freiheit lässt. <br class="br">What I am really interested in is knowing whether God could have created the world in a different way; in other words, whether the requirement of logical simplicity admits a margin of freedom. <br class="br">As translated in Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion (Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 124 <br class="br">What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all. <br class="br">As translated in Gerald Holton, The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1978), p. xii https://books.google.com/books?id=_RU7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR12 <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications