What might we define as the Tao of Physics?

There are interesting philosophical beliefs revealed in ancient Eastern religion which match amazingly well with what subatomic physics is revealing about the nature of the Universe. How do you think the ancients recognized truths it has taken Western science many millennia to uncover? What might we define as the Tao of Physics?

For instance, while touring and lecturing in the Far East, Werner Heisenberg noted, “The great scientific contribution in theoretical physics that has come from Japan since the last war may be an indication of a certain relationship between philosophical ideas in the tradition of the Far East and the philosophical Schrodinger.”

Speaking of Vishnu, Robert Oppenheimer said, “The general notions about human understanding… which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find [in modern physics] is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.”

Niels Bohr said, “For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealizations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence.”

What do you think these giants of Physics meant. How do you think the ancients were able to be so prescient about things they couldn’t possibly test or observe?