The Tao of Science: An Essay on Western Knowledge and Eastern Wisdom (Technology Press Books in the Social Sciences)

xvi, 180 pp. An examination of the intersection of cutting edge sciences like quantum physics, and the wisdom of Eastern traditions. From the preface: "I studied the sciences of the West... In the late afternoon I pored over Mencius and the other Chinese classics... I became an executive... the almost forgotten Oriental lessons would come bobbing to the rescue with increasing frequency. At first, the essence of Oriental classics and that of Western science did not appear compatible... Nevertheless, the oscillating current of thought between the two poles kept me intrigued with the possibility of injecting the temperamental advantages of the ancient Oriental diffusive steadiness into the potential fast-moving technism of the modern West."