Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrakeis an English author, public speaker, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, known for his "morphic resonance" concept. He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973 and as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics until 1978...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1942
Rupert Sheldrake quotes about
art school successful
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.
appreciation art people
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.
art successful ideas
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.
art creativity air
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...
british-scientist hear hoping interested love protein
Well, I'm always hoping to hear from interested chemists and protein chemists, because I'd love for these experiments to be done properly.
active cheapest passive reforms science simplest switch
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
assumption based features nature
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.
point represents
I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.
british-scientist call designed machines point processing program stay time word
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.
people scientists
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
hard people work
I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.
learnt
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
believe hardened held maintained powerful sciences
The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.
backed british-scientist point science talk thousands tons
The point of what I'm doing is to talk not about science backed up by hundreds of committees, thousands of professors, and many tons of textbooks.