Rupert Sheldrake Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

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

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Thinking, Law, Habit

  "Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

• Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Culture, Speech, Fields

• Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Mind, Development, Matter

  Rupert Sheldrake (1988). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature”, Vintage

• 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

• The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Spring, Creativity, Opportunity

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