The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable. — 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… — 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
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid,… — 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
