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Rupert Sheldrake
British
Scientist
Born:
Jun 28
,
1942
About
Being
Faith
Nature
Science
Think
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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
Home
Unknown
Tell
Some
About
Weight
Nobody
Knows
Opinion
Dogs
Coming
Coming Home
Owner
Any
Anyone
Cannot
Whether
Really
Means
Now
Right
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Rupert Sheldrake
Kind
Uncertainty
Bear
Scepticism
Certain
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Rupert Sheldrake
Best
Science
Inquiry
System
Open-Minded
Method
Belief
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.
Rupert Sheldrake
Will
Free
Believe
Assumptions
Back
Taboos
Maintained
Powerful
Sciences
Being
Held
Hardened
Set
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
Home
Sense
Seven
Know
Most
Masters
Dogs
Coming
Coming Home
Been
Being
Experiments
Far
Who
Pets
Stared
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
Time
You
Word
Random
Every
Every Time
Machines
Be Different
Stay
About
Point
Computer
Call
Up
Same
Different
Want
Processing
Your
Whole
Now
Designed
Program
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
Rupert Sheldrake
Nature
Old
Sense
Chaotic
Determined
Most
Predictable
Inherently
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
Science
Cause
Edge
Way
About
Area
Clear
Leading
Know
Talking
Dealing
Going
Where
Which
Things
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake
Religion
Science
People
Some People
Other
Some
Both
Failings
Exhibit
Human
Dishonest
Exploitative
Incompetent
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake
Nature
Think
Evolve
Prone
Laws
More
Habits
Like
Also
Than
I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.
Rupert Sheldrake
Work
Hard Work
People
Think
Top
Most
Gets
Hard
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
Rupert Sheldrake
Science
Writing
Active
About
Voice
Simplest
Cheapest
Institutional
Within
Passive
Reforms
Switch
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
Rupert Sheldrake
Science
Reality
Philosophy
Claims
Physical
Contemporary
Material
Materialism
Which
Based
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