Collectives Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

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

— 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 on your…

— 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 very full…

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

— 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, and I'm…

— Rupert Sheldrake

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

— 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 that their…

— Rupert Sheldrake