Fritjof Capra Quotes

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

Nature is usually wrong.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

Man must conquer nature.

I remember desperately trying to convince my wife that what I was believing was real - that I was being followed, that I was involved in some type of mind-control experiment. I couldn't understand why she couldn't believe me.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly.

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

Dark and Dangerous. And all mine.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.