The Presence of the Past Quotes

“cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4 per cent of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96 per cent of physical reality is literally obscure.8”
― Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

“morphic resonance points to new ways forward: If the regularities of nature are evolving habits rather than eternal laws, there is no need to assume that all these regularities were fixed at the moment of the Big Bang. Hence there is no need to suppose that all laws of nature were intelligently designed at the moment of creation, or else that there are an infinite number of unobserved universes. These hypotheses are unnecessary if nature is radically evolutionary, as the hypothesis of formative causation proposes.”
― Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

“What is emerging in its place is an evolutionary vision of reality at every level: subatomic, atomic, chemical, biological, social, ecological, cultural, mental, economic, astronomical and cosmic.”
― Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature