"Not every good idea survives. Not every new……" — Rupert Sheldrake
"Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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