Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold. Such a Nature does not accept abdication, nor skepticism.

Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1971-1980, Nobel lecture for award received in 1974, The Coming Age of the Cell, World Scientific Publishing Company. Singapore. 1992