When Fritjof Capra interviewed Heisenberg in 1972 for his book The Tao of Physics and inquired about the famous physicist’s thoughts on Eastern philosophy, Heisenberg told Capra, to his great surprise, “not only that he had been well aware of the parallels between quantum physics and Eastern thought, but also that his own scientific work had been influenced, at least at the subconscious level, by Indian philosophy.”
