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Science Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
- 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.
- 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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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov