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 SheldrakeThe science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.
Rupert SheldrakeFor 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 SheldrakeI think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert SheldrakeThe fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
Rupert SheldrakeIn 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 Sheldrake