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

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• To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn’t seem to give a very full picture of the world.

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• The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.

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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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• 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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• 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 simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

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

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• In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

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

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

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

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• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

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• I do vote but I don’t think that any political party represents my point of view.

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• All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

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• Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

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• 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.

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

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Rupert Sheldrake (26)

Birth:	28th June, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Scientist

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Alfred Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist and author. He is known for having proposed a non-genetic account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology.

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