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Fritjof Capra



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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Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality

The trailblazer of new science and a contemporary Thomas Merton explore the parallels between new paradigm thinking in science and religion that together offer a remarkably compatible view of the universe.

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Fritjof Capra, David Steindl-Rast, Thomas Matus
1993
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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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FindCenter Quotes ImageGenuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one’s identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageCare flows naturally if the ‘self’ is widened and deepened so that protection of free Nature is felt and conceived as protection of ourselves . . . Just as we need no morals to make us breathe . . .

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FindCenter Quotes ImageScientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageQuantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units.

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