Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

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• The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
• I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
• The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the…
• I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
• If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?
• 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,…
• So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom,…
• The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental…
• Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for…
• In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in…
• Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody…
• What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance,…
• 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 dealing…
• Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
• The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.
• For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the…
• Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.
• 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…
• There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
• Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

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