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Fritjof Capra, PhD, is an Austria-born American physicist, systems theorist, educator, activist, and deep ecologist. He is the author of several international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society. Capra is best known for his book The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics has changed our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere are solutions to the major problems of our time; some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, our values.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageDeep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePatterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe complexity and efficiency of the physicist’s technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic’s consciousness—both physical and spiritual—in deep meditation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageCommunication, according to Maturana, is not primarily a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior between living organisms.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLeonardo did not pursue science and engineering in order to dominate nature, as Francis Bacon would advocate a century later, but always tried to learn as much as possible from nature.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageScience does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs the twenty-first century unfolds, it is becoming more and more evident that the major problems of our time—energy, the environment, climate change, food security, financial security—cannot be understood in isolation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. . . .

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn the Hindu view of nature, then, all forms are relative, fluid and ever-changing maya, conjured up by the great magician of the divine play. The world of maya changes continuously, because the divine lila is a rhythmic, dynamic play.

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