The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality... — 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
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
