"Religion and science are the two conjugated faces of phases of one and the same act of complete knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution so as to contemplate, measure and fulfill them." (Pierre T de Chardin, "The Phenomenon of Man", 1955)
"Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole." (Pierre T de Chardin, "The Phenomenon of Man", 1955)"The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe - even a positive 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 T de Chardin, "The Phenomenon of Man", 1955)
"The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres." (Pierre T de Chardin, "The Divine Milieu", 1960)
"All that really matters is devotion to something bigger than ourselves." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Driven by the force of love, the fragments of the world seek each other that the world may come into being." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Life does not work by following a single thread, nor yet by fits and starts. It pushes forward its whole network at one and the same time." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle." (Pierre T de Chardin)
"We are not humans having a spiritual experience. Instead, we are spirits having a human experience." (Pierre T de Chardin)
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