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"Unweaving the Rainbow" Quotes
"Unweaving the Rainbow" by Richard Dawkins explores how scientific understanding enhances rather than diminishes the beauty and wonder of the natural world.
science | Published in 2000
Quotes
Science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
The rainbow’s beauty is not destroyed by knowing how it is made.
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved: quite the contrary.
Science has its poetry, the poetry of reality.
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
We are digital archives of DNA, passed on through countless generations.
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent.
It is the fate of the universe to be misunderstood by some.