What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read Quote
