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A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
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Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of complexification.
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Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.
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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
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No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.
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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
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The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
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Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.
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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
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We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.
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Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
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It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
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The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.
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From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.
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When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.
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