Sheldrake also argues that science has become a series of dogmas rather than an open-minded approach to investigating phenomena, and questions such foundational principles and facts of modern science as the conservation of energy and the impossibility of perpetual motion devices.
Sheldrake also argues that science has become a series of dogmas rather than an open-minded approach to investigating phenomena, and has suggested that scientists are susceptible to "the recurrent fantasy of omniscience". He questions such foundational principles and facts of modern science as the conservation of energy and the impossibility of perpetual motion devices.