Rupert Sheldrake Quotes
Rupert Sheldrake is a prominent biologist and author, with over 100 scientific papers and 15 books, his work transcending language barriers to be published in 28 languages. Recognized as a top 100 Global Thought Leader in 2013 by the Duttweiler Institute and ranking in the top 4% of scientists on ResearchGate, Sheldrake's contributions to science are also reflected in his high h-index on Google Scholar. For a decade, Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine has listed him among the most spiritually influential living people. Sheldrake's academic credentials include a double first-class honours degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University, further studies at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge. He has been a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, where he made significant contributions to plant biology, including the discovery of the mechanism of polar auxin transport.
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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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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 biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled
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As Terence McKenna observed, “Modern science is based on the principle: ‘Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.’ The one free miracle is the appearance of all the mass and energy in the universe and all the laws that govern it in a single instant from nothing.”4
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