In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.” — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation;… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
