" What is at issue is to reach the 'originary' sense, the emerging or arising sense of the geometry that we are receiving--and which is not merely an event of the past, which continues to work in its development and in its present, which makes the geometry from geometry, which makes its unity. Therefore, in geometry there is something other than the lived thoughts of Galileo and others--taken up or realized again by others--there is a 'sense' which is larger, 'deeper,' onto which their thought opens, a field which is intended right off, but not enveloped by their thought, and which is still present in the whole history of geometry...The emergence of the sense, the depth - dimensions of geometry and of physics, which did not happen within one or several heads, is the model for thinking universal history, which is always the openness of fields. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology