Unweaving The Rainbow: Science, Delusion And The Appetite For Wonder

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From the bestselling author of ” The God Delusion”, Richard Dawkins` ” Unweaving the Rainbow” explores the most important & compelling topics in modern science, & our appetite for wonder. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this illuminating & provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken & shows how an understanding of science in fact inspires the human imagination & enhances our wonder of the world. ” Beautifully written & full of interesting, original ideas. Essential reading”. (” The Times”). ”A brilliant assertion of the wonder & excitement of real, tough, grown-up science”. (A.S. Byatt). ” The way Dawkins writes about science is not just a brain-tonic. It is more like an extended stay on a brain health-farm.. .you come out feeling lean, tuned & enormously more intelligent”. (” Sunday Times”). ” For Dawkins there is more poetry, not less, in the rainbow because of Newton.. .warming to his theme, he weaves rainbows of wonder from other provinces of science & then unleashes his fury on those who accuse scientists like him of being unimaginative for not believing in horoscopes, telepathy, ghosts & gods”. (Matt Ridley). ” Brilliantly entertaining & stimulating”. (” Observer”). Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society & the Royal Society of Literature, & Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: ” The Extended Phenotype”, ” The Blind Watchmaker”, ” River Out of Eden”, ” Unweaving the Rainbow”, & an impassioned defence of atheism, ” The God Delusion”.