"The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within……" — Rupert Sheldrake
"The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science."
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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 Active Quotes
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
— Robert Ballard
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
— Allen Boyd
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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