229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is Heisenberg a Scientist?
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.
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