"The biggest bursts of speciation that we know……" — Rupert Sheldrake
"The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out."
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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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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