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1. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
2. "There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
3. "Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
4. "In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
5. "I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
6. "Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
7. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
8. "I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
9. "I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
10. "The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
11. "All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
12. "Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
13. "I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
14. "I think hard work is what gets most people to the top." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
15. "Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
16. "Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
17. "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
18. "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
19. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
20. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
21. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake
22. "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." ~ Rupert Sheldrake

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