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Rupert Sheldrake

Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, who developed the concept of "morphic resonance". 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 in India until 1978.

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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.

Christian, Law, Belief, Informed, Early, System

So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

Determined, Emerging, Freedom, Kind, Past, Way

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, Gives, Inspired

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

Science, Talking, Way, Clear, Know

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

Behavior, Insight, Moments, Organized, Pattern, Patterns

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Arise, Creativity, Indeterminacy, Pattern, Patterns, Thinking

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.

Archetype, Empherical, Living, Mother, Names, Views

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

Genes, Plants, Products, Research, Understanding, Years

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means. . . nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

Coming, Dog, Home, Mean, Tell

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Bears, Belief, Certain, Kind, Scepticism

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

Entirely, Middle, System, Thirty, Workshops

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

Dog, Dogs, Home, Pet, Sense, Stared

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Atheism, Atheist, Deal, Phase, Phases, Scientific

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Influenced, Memories, New York, Past, Squirrel, Squirrels

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

Dollar Bills, Dollars, Fact, Forge, Twenties, Twenty

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

People, Failing, Science And Religion, Exhibit, Failings, Incompetent

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, Heard, Obscurity

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, Years, Peers, Royal, Publications, Journals

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Evolve, Habit, Law, Nature, Prone, 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.

Real, Scientists, Technology, Thinking

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