Next Generation of Physicists

The next generation of physicists struggling with these contradictions began to put forward the ideas of, 'uncertainty', 'probability' and 'complementarity1 which now form the basis of the new physics.

They found themselves thinking more and more about the philosophical implications of this new world view: although these new discoveries had no precedent in the science of the Western world, gradually a number of modern physicists began to find correlations between their findings and some of the philosophical traditions of the East.

The general notions about human understanding which are illustrated in atomic physics are not in the nature of things totally unfamiliar, unheard of or new.

Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Eastern thought a more considerable and central place. What we find is an exemplification, an encouragement, a refinement of old wisdom.
                                                                  J. Hubert Oppenheimer