Occupation: Physicist Birth: February 1, 1939
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be..
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model comm….
One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see li….
In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the mani….
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human ….
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness..
Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns..
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence ….
The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may a….
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the myst….
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one ano….
In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive ….
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resid….
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the….
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between th….
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loop….
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and nec….
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. ….
Whenever we look at life, we look at networks..
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects..
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to d….