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牛顿用三棱镜把光线分解成光谱，揭开了彩虹的奥秘，但诗人济慈却批评牛顿，让彩虹诗意全无。我们不禁要问——科学与美，可以共存吗？
道金斯给出了肯定的回答：不仅是彩虹的美，自然界中所有的美都不会因此而消失，而且科学像诗一样美；科学，令人感受到的惊人奇妙，是人类心灵能够胜任驾驭的最高体验。他以一流科学家的修为、高超的文学笔法，写就了这部史诗般的科普佳作，呼吁人们理解科学的奇妙，打破科学的樊篱。
作者简介:
理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins，1941— ）
英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学首席西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”，演化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。
自序
第一章 熟悉的麻木
第二章 伯爵们的客厅
第三章 恒星上的条形码
第四章 空中的条形码
第五章 法庭中的条形码
第六章 被童话哄骗
第七章 解析玄妙，见怪不怪
第八章 臆想的浪漫是虚幻的浮云
第九章 自私的合作者
第十章 逝者的遗传天书
第十一章 重织世界
第十二章 思维的气球
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原文摘录:
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so amssively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. (查看原文)
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2015-05-27 15:06:40
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Unlike Moore’s law for computers, there is no obvious reason to think that the human brain will go on swelling. In order for this to happen, large-brained individuals have to have more children than small-brained individuals. It isn’t obvious that this is now happening. It must have happened during our ancestral past, otherwise our brains would not have grown as they did. It also must have been true, incidentally, that braininess in our ancestors was under genetic control. If it had not been, natural selection would have had nothing to work on, and the evolutionary growth of the brain would not have occurred. For some reason, many people take grave political offense at the suggestion that some individuals are genetically clearer than others. But this must have been the case when our brains… (查看原文)
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2014-09-21 12:22:49
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