"I learnt about plants from my father, who……" — Rupert Sheldrake

"I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist."

— Rupert Sheldrake

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45 Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than…
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies…
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in…
So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into…
The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and…
Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who…
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It…
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home…
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no…

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More Amateur Quotes

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer… — Unknown Author
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has… — Brooks Atkinson
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development… — Marshall McLuhan
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who… — Alfred Stieglitz

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