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Rupert Sheldrake


British
June 28, 1942
Scientist
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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.


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Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.


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


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I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.


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I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
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I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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