The Tao of Physics Author:Fritjof Capra "Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs bot." -Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics — The mystics explore it through meditation. The nuclear physicists explore it through experimentation ... more »and hypothesis. It's the universe as we understand it today, a "cosmic dance" of paradoxical yet unified relationships- and organic vision brilliantly evoked by a gifted and thoughtful physicist.
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