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

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

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.

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.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

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.

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