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
creativity thinking patterns
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
patterns moments behavior
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
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.
analogy british-scientist conscious darwin developed human natural selection
Well, natural selection was an idea that Darwin developed by analogy with conscious human selection. That's where he got the idea from.
british-scientist eternal nature theory
The mechanistic theory of nature is a theory of nature, and one that I think is wrong, or at least too limited. It's not an eternal truth.