Sheldrake initially became disenchanted with mechanistic science at Cambridge, adopted the idea of holistic science, and although expected to pursue a PhD, chose instead to attend Harvard as a special student where he could freely explore history and philosophy of science.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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I became increasingly disenchanted with mechanistic science which I was studying I started reading Gerta and I had the idea of a holistic science and I just everyone assumed I'd go on and do a PhD because I got a double first you know I didn't think so um but I wasn't sure if I wanted to I mean I liked science but I didn't like killing animals all the time

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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