I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences… — 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
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing… — 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,… — 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
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance.… — 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… — 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
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a… — 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
![“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia…” quote by Rupert Sheldrake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e44/rupert-sheldrake-11866_ancient_the-gaia-hypothesis-of-james-lovelock-an_2853360.jpg)
