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.

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• Rupert Sheldrake:

  Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit othe

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I research

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlik

• Rupert Sheldrake:

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

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that packag

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

• Rupert Sheldrake:

  I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.