Claims Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know…

— Thomas Huxley

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the…

— Nancy Pearcey

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

— Charlie Sykes

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history…

— Robert Trout

Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And…

— Karl Popper

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

— Lionel Trilling

For many years quantum physics had been giving indications that there are levels of reality other than the material level.

— Amit Goswami

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters…

— Antony Hegarty

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

— Carl Sagan

“Science must not degenerate into applied materialistic philosophy. But this is exactly what it does at the hands of today's alchemists, namely, the materialistic…

— William A. Dembski

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

— Ezra Taft Benson