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
christian law belief
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.
discovery years belief
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.
inquiry belief open-minded
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
bears belief kind
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
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.