Investigating Creation to Find the Creator: My Thanks to Zichichi, Man of Science and of God

From that book I read as a boy to my vision as an entrepreneur: the memory of how Zichichi taught me to see a Design where others see only chance.

Today, February 9, 2026, science loses a giant, but we believers lose a courageous witness. The news of Antonino Zichichi’s passing immediately took me back in time, to when I was just a boy passionate about science and came across that book that would change my way of thinking: “Why I Believe in Him Who Made the World.”

In those pages I did not find the aridity of certain academic theories, but the vibrant enthusiasm of someone who, studying matter, ended up touching the Spirit. As a Catholic entrepreneur, I feel the urgency to share, especially with young people, the revolutionary lesson that Zichichi leaves us as a legacy: using reason does not mean extinguishing Faith.

The Universe Is Not the Child of Chaos

You are often told that we are the product of chance, a biological accident in a mute universe. Zichichi fought his entire life against this nihilistic vision. He taught us that Science is the privileged instrument for discovering the “Logic of the Creator.”

When a scientist discovers a fundamental law, he is deciphering a code that has always existed.

It is a concept that, in my work as an entrepreneur, I experience firsthand every day. If I see a company prosper, processes that work and objectives achieved, I know that behind it there is not chance, but a vision, a will, a founder. Zichichi looked at the cosmos and saw the same thing: an immense work that presupposes an Author.

Be “Scientists” of Your Life

The message I want to convey to young people today is this: do not settle for prepackaged answers.

Zichichi demonstrated to us that scientific culture is an act of humility and wonder toward Creation. True science is not that which presumes to know everything and to exclude God, but that which stops in amazement before the perfect complexity of physical laws.

I wish you to have his same intellectual curiosity. Do not be afraid to investigate, to study, to go deep into things. You will discover, as he did and as I learned from that book many years ago, that the more one understands how the world is made, the more difficult it becomes to deny Him who made it.

Farewell Professor, and thank you for teaching us that Faith is not a refuge for those who are ignorant, but the destination for those who truly know how to look.