Top 15 Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

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

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

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

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.

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.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I still say the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

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

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.