As a biology and maths teacher, I have dipped into both of these books from time to time: Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life, (1981), and The Presence of the Past, (1998). I recall A New Science of Life causing a stir among the stuffy, pompous academics at the time, with one review saying something along the lines, if my memory serves me well, that this is a book for “burning.” Who in science would want to allude to attitudes of the past that oozed intolerance?