Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge,…

Fritjof Capra
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions. ✨ The Tao of Physics. Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.
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Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions. ✨ The Tao of Physics. Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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