The first is from Robert Oppenheimer’s Science and the Common Understanding: He cites the following two references to typify the kind of agreement he sees between the Oriental and the Occidental world views. Capra, a high-energy physicist with a long-standing interest in Eastern philosophy, finds it significant that physicists’ descriptions of the paradoxical subatomic reality they seem to have discovered echo the descriptions of reality given by the mystics of various traditions, namely, the Vedic tradition of India, the Buddhist tradition, and the Taoist tradition of China.
Over the past six or seven years I’ve met many people, mostly college students, who’ve read Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics, a bestseller about the apparent parallels between Eastern mysticism and modern physics. But there’s more in the Vedic version than is dreamt of in Capra’s philosophy. Capra says, “and mystics do not need physics, but humanity needs both.” It is a message of timeless importance.Fritjof Capra’s bestseller points to apparent parallels between Eastern mysticism and the new physics. It includes a fresh cover design and a new preface by the author reflecting on further discoveries and developments in the years since the book’s original publication. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a true classic.
Its publication in more than twenty-three languages stands as testimony to its universal applicability and its enduring significance. Many books have been written in the ensuing years about the connections between quantum theory and the ideas of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, but Fritjof Capra’s text serves as the foundation on which the others have been built-and its wisdom has stood the test of time. The Tao of Physics brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time. A special edition of the “brilliant” best-selling classic on the paradoxes of modern physics and their relationship to concepts of Eastern mysticism ( New York Magazine)
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