Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

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• Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling…
• 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…
• Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech.…
• A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of…
• When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around…
• Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get…
• Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different…
• The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
• Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.
• The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living…
• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
• I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
• Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
• In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
• I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a…
• 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 opinions…
• I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
• I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
• I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.
• The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

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