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
religious thinking self
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.
thinking law habit
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
real technology thinking
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
creativity thinking patterns
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
mean thinking people
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.
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.