Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable. Rupert Sheldrake More Quotes by Rupert Sheldrake More Quotes From Rupert Sheldrake There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. Rupert Sheldrake kind belief bears 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. Rupert Sheldrake technology real thinking If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos? Rupert Sheldrake randomness chaos mean 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. Rupert Sheldrake talking science way The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries. Rupert Sheldrake dollar-bills dollars twenties The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality. Rupert Sheldrake quality memories mean Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one. Rupert Sheldrake skeptical uncertain would-be I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world. Rupert Sheldrake lord prayer world The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out. Rupert Sheldrake creativity spring opportunity In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. Rupert Sheldrake science-and-religion failing people 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. Rupert Sheldrake belief christian law 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. Rupert Sheldrake pet dog home Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual. Rupert Sheldrake successful ideas art 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. Rupert Sheldrake dog home mean 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. Rupert Sheldrake understanding research years I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws. Rupert Sheldrake habit law thinking 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. Rupert Sheldrake successful art school To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world. Rupert Sheldrake dna forests giving Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged. Rupert Sheldrake workshops thirty middle When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it. Rupert Sheldrake appreciation long art
