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have led the scientific revolution and have shaped scientific concepts in all other areas of investigation.
He says that discoveries in modern atomic research point to a theory that the universe is an organic whole. He thinks that many advances in science in the future will depend upon approaching the unknown holistically, rather than by isolating and breaking down everything into smaller and smaller parts.
Capra traces, in “The Turning Point,” the history of many aspects of our society affected by the scientific revolution, which began in the Renaissance.
He shows how major scientific themes developed in the early days of physics research have been successfully employed to organize work, our thinking and the transformation of society from a handicraft one, so to speak, to a robot view of almost anything. He postulates that we have exhausted this approach as a means to address most of the problems confronting us.
For instance, science and the scientific approach haven’t touched poverty, the threat of environmental degradation, including over-population, the likelihood of war and what hunger and disease are doing to people in vast areas of the world, to say nothing of homelessness, illiteracy, crime and lack of opportunity at home.
Science hasn’t made human relations or cooperation easier, and prejudice and hatred are as rampant
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