Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin actcompleteconjugate share on social
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin comprehendcreedfully Change image and share on social
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin adventureconquestdevelop Change image and share on social
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin lifemanmankind Change image and share on social
The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin accidentaccordancebear share on social
I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin deadgeologyowe Change image and share on social
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin beingexperiencehuman Change image and share on social
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin countlessgerminateinfinitesimal share on social
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bowconditionevolution share on social
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin concentrateformhistorically Change image and share on social
