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Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

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

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Rupert Sheldrake is a British author and scientist known for his interdisciplinary research in science, religion, and philosophy. Born on June 28, 1942, he is a prolific writer with over 20 books covering a variety of topics, including consciousness, mind, evolution, memory, and morphic resonance. Sheldrake's research often challenges traditional scientific views and proposes innovative scientific theories. more

“From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.”

People Political Turns Culture Belief Natural Habit Bed Response Everyday Inevitable Spontaneous Viewpoints Political Power Reflexes

Author:Terry Eagleton

“What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.”

Way Believe May Matter Use Language Views Situation Habit No Matter What Dresses Point Of View Appeals Grandparent

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”

Men Speak Opinion Influence Habit Drink Obedience Public Opinion

Author:Walter Bagehot

“In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.”

World Persons Said Two Seems Might Eye Form Situation Habit Relative Roughness

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry