To love is to approach each other center to center.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

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.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.