Occupation: Author Birth: June 28, 1942
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?.
The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries..
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamenta….
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical..
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in..
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 sq….
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system..
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards..
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling….
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which ….
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty..
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, ….
The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, an….
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the wor….
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 resea….
So there’s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom….
Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable..
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of peopl….
Machines 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….
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows.….
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, reli….