Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. I say "converge" advisedly, but without merging, and without ceasing, to the very end, to assail the real from different angles and on different planes.


In: Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, Introduction (p. 30), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1959


Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. I say...

Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. I say...

Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. I say...

Like the meridians as they approach the poles, science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. I say...