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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
Catholic Priest
Geologist
Paleoanthropologist
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P. Teilhard de Chardin
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