Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those… and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

Art

School

Successful

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

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Moments

Patterns

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Religious

Self

Thinking

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they’ve been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Culture

Fields

Speech

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Skeptical

Uncertain

Would Be

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Materialism

Philosophy

Reality

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Air

Art

Creativity

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

Belief

Discovery

Years

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

Cambridge University

Peers

Years

I still say the Lord’s Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Lord

Prayer

World

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Change

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Chaotic

Christian

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Creativity

Culture

Determined

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Different

Discovery

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Dog

Dollar Bills

Dollars

Failing

Fields

Filled In

Forests

Giving

Habit

Home

Ideas

Ignorance

Inquiry

Intelligent

Kind

Law

Leaving

Long

Lord

Machines

Materialism

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Mean

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Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake

Rupert Sheldrake

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those… and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they’ve been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

I still say the Lord’s Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

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