This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.

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.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.