Fritjof Capra Quotes

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Everyone operates within their own domain and obviously those domains overlap to a great extent.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

The world is generally multivariate

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

All things are delicately interconnected.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

God doesn't intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.