Is Heisenberg a Scientist?

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In his time, where there was no word scientist until the 18 50 so, but he was a scientist. The word science had a different meaning. It just meant knowledge. What we call science to day, during the renaissance and up to the nineteenth century, was called natural philosophy. So that sort of very brief inter tal influence explaines your interest in leonardo, who, of course, was not just an artist. Parenthetically, do you have an opiniono to what extent heisenberg was involved in the bomb project in germany? Much debate about that, how much he knew, and no i ated.

Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.