Fritjof Capra

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists…

— Fritjof Capra

When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a…

— Fritjof Capra

Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes…

— Fritjof Capra

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

— Fritjof Capra

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

— Fritjof Capra

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in…

— Fritjof Capra

At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in…

— Fritjof Capra

Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not…

— Fritjof Capra

Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building…

— Fritjof Capra

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization…

— Fritjof Capra

“The conceptual problem at the center of contemporary healthcare is the confusion between disease processes and disease origins. Instead of asking why…

— Fritjof Capra

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

— Fritjof Capra

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common…

— Fritjof Capra

The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection…

— Fritjof Capra

Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined…

— Fritjof Capra

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can…

— Fritjof Capra

Zen phrase says The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark.

— Fritjof Capra

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…

— Fritjof Capra

A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…

— Fritjof Capra

“The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God—"sacrifice" in the original sense…

— Fritjof Capra

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…

— Fritjof Capra

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and…

— Fritjof Capra

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and…

— Fritjof Capra

Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest…

— Fritjof Capra

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating…

— Fritjof Capra