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

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science i….

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their m….

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are ….

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empheri….

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in rel….

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings..

The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation o….

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

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….

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

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws..

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged..

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of s….

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world..

Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get rep….

The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs….

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful ….

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

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 whi….

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being..