That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions -and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
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… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“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… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
