Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."
- Rupert Sheldrake
(Related: Uncertainty)

"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
(Related: Home, Being, Dogs, Pets, Sense)

"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."
- Rupert Sheldrake
(Related: Nature, Idea, Being, Living, Memory, Now, Past)

"Now the whole point about machines is they 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."
- Rupert Sheldrake
(Related: Time, Computer, Machines, Now, Want, Word)

"Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable."
- Rupert Sheldrake
(Related: Nature, Old, Sense)

"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
(Related: Science, Cause, Leading, Talking)

"Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one."
- Rupert Sheldrake