Physics Quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

10 Physics quotes by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Teilhard de Chardin blends spirituality with scientific thought, and these ten quotes capture that rare fusion. They’re enough to spark reflection without overwhelming a newcomer to his work.

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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of…

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Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a…

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I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

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“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”

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“But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement…

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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…

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In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in…

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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…

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It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not…

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The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as…

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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's…

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Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,…

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“We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our…

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I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation…

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At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,…

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The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.”

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

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It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building…

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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking…

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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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