List of Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Machines 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.

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.

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.

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.

The Fact That You Can Forge A Twenty Dollar Bill Doesn't Prove That All Twenty Dollar Bills Are Forgeries.

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.

Unfortunately, At Present, Practically No One Under Thirty Goes To Workshops. It's A System Of Education Entirely For The Middle Aged.

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.

Because A Truly Skeptical Position Would Be A Very Uncertain One.