"Au commencement, Dieu créa le ciel et la terre..." Quelles que soient nos spéculations quant à un "commencement" et à sa date, il est écrit dans les roches que, comme les animaux et les plantes à sa surface, la terre elle-même a grandi.
Elisha Gray, Nature's Miracles : Familiar Talks on Science (1899), Vol. 1, 1
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…” Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a “beginning,” and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.
Elisha Gray, Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science (1899), Vol. 1, 1