Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Mind

• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Soul

• Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, Order

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Nature, Truth

• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Expression, Atoms

• From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, May

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

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Stars, Science, Molecules

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

• Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Evolution, Process

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1995). “Hymn of the Universe”, p.15, Рипол Классик

• We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Long Ago, Would Be

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

• To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Writing, Science, Clothes

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.111, Lulu Press, Inc

• This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Eye, Science, Discovery

• Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Mirrors

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.140, Lulu Press, Inc

• The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Unity, Fundamentals

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Discovery, Together

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Common, Evolution

• And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Thinking, Unity

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