"The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the……" — Rupert Sheldrake
"The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality..."
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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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More Cumulative Quotes
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here…
— Learned Hand
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
— Stephen Covey
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What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They…
— Donald Cram
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Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;…
— John Ruskin
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Success action is cumulative in its results.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By…
— Plato
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All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who…
— Camara Laye
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The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth,…
— George Saunders
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