The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“The commonest kinds of seemingly telepathic response are the anticipation by dogs and cats of their owners coming home; the anticipation of owners going… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means...… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
