I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes