Frijof Capra (1975, The Tao of Physics, Shambhala, Boston) has been developing is that in all of the disciplines of the natural sciences - physics, chemistry, biology - it has been necessary for scientists to abandon the mechanistic and deterministic assumptions underlying the Newtonian world view. In order to understand the nature of reality they have had to forge a new perspective which recognizes relationships and indeterminacy; in short. a perspective that is much more systemic in character.
