Elements Quote by Fritjof Capra

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

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

— Fritjof Capra

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

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

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

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

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

— Fritjof Capra

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

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

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

— Fritjof Capra

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

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in…

— Fritjof Capra