Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
science, delusion and the Apetite for Wonder
KORTE INHOUD
It is often argued that scientific understanding lessens our appreciation of life's specialness. Perhaps a scientist understands nature's mechanism, but what of its beauty? Newton took a prism to create an artificial rainbow, so revealing the coloured spectrum hidden in white light; at that moment, when the rainbow was properly understood, was its poetry diminished for ever?
Richard Dawkins answers with a passionate 'No', not just for the rainbow but for all of nature. The wonder of the universe and our place in it is revealed through science in ways otherwise impossible to appreciate or imagine.
Dawkins urges us to see that the desire for what is beautiful should not lead us away from the search for what is true. Still less should we be tempted towards the false refuges of pseudoscience and superstition. Whether in the analysis of starlight or sound waves, animal footprints or human DNA, the seemingly miraculous worlds that science continues to reveal should inspire rather than undermine the poetic imagination...
Richard Dawkins answers with a passionate 'No', not just for the rainbow but for all of nature. The wonder of the universe and our place in it is revealed through science in ways otherwise impossible to appreciate or imagine.
Dawkins urges us to see that the desire for what is beautiful should not lead us away from the search for what is true. Still less should we be tempted towards the false refuges of pseudoscience and superstition. Whether in the analysis of starlight or sound waves, animal footprints or human DNA, the seemingly miraculous worlds that science continues to reveal should inspire rather than undermine the poetic imagination...
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