Rupert Sheldrake

The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

— Rupert Sheldrake

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program…

— Rupert Sheldrake

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“The commonest kinds of seemingly telepathic response are the anticipation by dogs and cats of their owners coming home; the anticipation of…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

— Rupert Sheldrake

“cognitive dissonance is”

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some…

— Rupert Sheldrake

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance.…

— Rupert Sheldrake

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

— Rupert Sheldrake

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

— Rupert Sheldrake

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through…

— Rupert Sheldrake

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge…

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

— Rupert Sheldrake

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

— Rupert Sheldrake

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take…

— Rupert Sheldrake

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no…

— Rupert Sheldrake

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

— Rupert Sheldrake