In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.
Rupert SheldrakeThe fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
Rupert SheldrakeThe idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert SheldrakeI think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake