文档介绍：RICHARD DAWKINS - UNWEAVING THE
RAINBOW
SCIENCE, DELUSION AND THE APPETITE
FOR WONDER.
'The product of a beguiling and fascinating mind and one generous
enough to attempt to include all willing readers in its brilliantly informed
enthusiasm'
MELVYN BRAGG, OBSERVER
Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by
explaining the origin of its colours, thus dispelling its mystery. In this
illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats
could not have been more mistaken and shows how an understanding of
science inspires the human imagination and enhances our wonder of the
world.
'A brilliant assertion of the wonder and excitement of real, tough, grown-
up science'
A. S. BYATT, DAILY TELEGRAPH, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'The way Dawkins writes about science is not just a brain-tonic.
It is more like an extended stay on a brain health-farm ... e out
feeling lean, tuned and enormously more intelligent'
JOHN CAREY, 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 ... and then unleashes his fury on those who accuse
scientists like him of being unimaginative for not believing in horoscopes,
telepathy, ghosts and gods'
MATT RIDLEY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Beautifully written and full of interesting, original ideas. Essential
reading, for those who care about science'
LEWIS WOLPERT, THE TIMES
PREFACE
A foreign publisher of my first book confessed that he could not sleep for
three nights after reading it, so troubled was he by what he saw as its
cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in
the mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote to me reproachfully
that a pupil e to him in tears after reading the same book,
because it had persuaded her that life was empty and purposeless. He
advised her not to show the book to any of her friends, for fear of
contamina