Rupert Sheldrake Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.”

“Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.”

“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.”