Rupert Sheldrake Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Reality, Filled In, Leaving

  "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012.

• There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Bears, Belief, Kind

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

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Inquiry, Belief, Open Minded

  "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

• The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Christian, Law, Belief

• In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Truth, Discovery, Self

• 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.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Real, Technology, Thinking

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery”, p.7, Deepak Chopra

• 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.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Discovery, Years, Belief

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