Varadaraja V. Raman vs. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Varadaraja V. Raman
1932 – present
Varadaraja Venkata Raman is a professor emeritus of physics and humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
"Religions are like lofty peaks rising high above the surrounding plains of our physical being, merging, as it were, into the distant domain of heaven itself, be…"
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881 – 1955
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic, and teacher. Teilhard de Chardin investigated the theory of evolution from a perspective influenced by Henri Bergson and Christian mysticism, writing multiple scientific and religious works on the subject.
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history …"
Connections
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