"For more than 200 years, materialists have promised……" — Rupert Sheldrake
"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 faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs."
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45 Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake has 45 quotes on this site.
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The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
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I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than…
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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies…
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I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
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If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?
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The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in…
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So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into…
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The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and…
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Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who…
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In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It…
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Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home…
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What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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