He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned