A biography for Rupert Sheldrakehasn’t been written yet.
“I think hard work is what gets most people to the top.”
“There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.”
“The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.”
“Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.”
“All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.”
“The 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.”
“I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.”