NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sparkling new anthology of essays, lectures and letters by the brilliant evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
Richard Dawkins first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene (1976) which he followed with a string of prestigious books, including The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The God Delusion, a previous anthology A Devil's Chaplain (2003) and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015). He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature and the recipient of numerous honours and awards. He remains a fellow of New College, Oxford. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker in Prospect magazine's poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.
[Dawkins] is a thunderously gifted science writer
*The Times*
One of the best non-fiction writers alive today
*Steven Pinker*
The illumination of Dawkins’ incisive thinking on the intellectual
world extends far beyond biology. What a treat to see so clearly
how matter and meaning fit together, from fiction to philosophy to
molecular biology, all in one unified vision!’ Daniel C.
Dennett
*Daniel C. Dennett*
In this golden age of enlightened science writing it is stunning
that no scientist has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Pulitzer Prizes, yes, but it is time literature's highest award be
granted to a scientist whose writings have changed not just science
but society. No living scientist is more deserving of such
recognition than Richard Dawkins, whose every book reflects his
literary genius and scientific substance. Science in the Soul is
the perfect embodiment of Nobel quality literature."
*Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, columnist Scientific
American, author The Moral Arc and Heavens on Earth*
I thank Thor and Zeus that in their infinite wisdom they chose to
make the great wordsmith of our age a great rationalist and vice
versa.
*Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist and The Evolution of
Everything*
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