The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes