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• Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

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  Determined, Chaos, Chaotic

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• So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. It’s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.

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  Past, Way, Determined

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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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  Cambridge University, Years, Peers

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

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• 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.

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  Spring, Creativity, Opportunity

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

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  People, Failing, Science And Religion

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

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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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  Prayer, World, Lord

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

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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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  Dna, Giving, Forests

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

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• Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

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  Dog, Home, Pet

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• Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.

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  Art, Successful, Ideas

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

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  Would Be, Uncertain, Skeptical

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• Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

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  Thirty, Middle, Workshops

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• 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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  Science, Talking, Way

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• The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

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  Twenties, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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• Machines 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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  Technology, Different, Machines

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• Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

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  Years, Understanding, Research

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• Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

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  Dog, Mean, Home

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• A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

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  Art, School, Successful

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