An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-29 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Ecco Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists. and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists. Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes . But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the worldIn An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey back to an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa. There the exotic natural world was his constant companion. Boarding school in England at the age of eight. and. later. public school at Oundle introduce Dawkins. and the reader. to strange rules and eccentric schoolmasters. vividly described with both humorous affection and some reservation. An initial ferven...
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"The Richard Dawkins that emerges here is a far cry from the strident, abrasive caricature beloved of lazy journalists ... There is no score-settling, but a generous appreciation and admiration of the qualities of others, as well as a transparent love of life, literature - and science."--The Independent
"Surprisingly intimate and moving. ... He is here to find out what makes us tick: to cut through the nonsense to the real stuff."--The Guardian
."..this isn't Dawkins's version of My Family and Other Animals. It's the beauty of ideas that arouses his appetite for wonder: and, more especially, his relentless drive ... towards the answer."--The Times (UK)
"Dawkins' style [is] clear and elegant as usual... a personal introduction to an important thinker and populariser of science. ... provide[s] a superb background to the academic and social climate of postwar British research."--Financial Times
"[An Appetite for Wonder is] a memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science... and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons. ... an enchanting memoir to read, one that I recommend highly."--NPR
."..charming, boring, brilliant, contradictory, conventional, revolutionary. We leave it perhaps not full of facts or conclusions, but with a feeling of knowing the man."--New York Daily News
"Richard Dawkins is a hero of mine, so being able to read about how he became the man and the thinker he is, was a particular delight for me. ... Some people get their kicks from Superman's origin story, or Batman's origin story ... But for me, it was Richard Dawkins."--Bill Maher
"In An Appetite for Wonder Dawkins turns his critical analysis inward to reveal how his mind works and what personal events and cultural forces most shaped his thinking. Destined to become a classic in the annals of science autobiography."--Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Believing Brain and Why Darwin Matters
"Skepticism and atheism do not arrive from revelation or authority. In our culture it's a slow thoughtful process... For the modern skeptical/atheist movement, in the beginning -- there was Dawkins and he was wicked good. Appetite for Wonder shows us this beginning."--Penn Jillette, author of God No! and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
"Told with frankness and eloquence, warmth and humor, this is ... a truly entertaining and enlightening read and I recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of Dawkins the man and the rightful place of science in our modern world."--Lawrence Krauss, Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, author of A Universe from Nothing and Physics of Star Trek
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"Surprisingly intimate and moving. ... He is here to find out what makes us tick: to cut through the nonsense to the real stuff."--The Guardian
."..this isn't Dawkins's version of My Family and Other Animals. It's the beauty of ideas that arouses his appetite for wonder: and, more especially, his relentless drive ... towards the answer."--The Times (UK)
"Dawkins' style [is] clear and elegant as usual... a personal introduction to an important thinker and populariser of science. ... provide[s] a superb background to the academic and social climate of postwar British research."--Financial Times
"[An Appetite for Wonder is] a memoir that is funny and modest, absorbing and playful. Dawkins has written a marvelous love letter to science... and for this, the book will touch scientists and science-loving persons. ... an enchanting memoir to read, one that I recommend highly."--NPR
."..charming, boring, brilliant, contradictory, conventional, revolutionary. We leave it perhaps not full of facts or conclusions, but with a feeling of knowing the man."--New York Daily News
"Richard Dawkins is a hero of mine, so being able to read about how he became the man and the thinker he is, was a particular delight for me. ... Some people get their kicks from Superman's origin story, or Batman's origin story ... But for me, it was Richard Dawkins."--Bill Maher
"In An Appetite for Wonder Dawkins turns his critical analysis inward to reveal how his mind works and what personal events and cultural forces most shaped his thinking. Destined to become a classic in the annals of science autobiography."--Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Believing Brain and Why Darwin Matters
"Skepticism and atheism do not arrive from revelation or authority. In our culture it's a slow thoughtful process... For the modern skeptical/atheist movement, in the beginning -- there was Dawkins and he was wicked good. Appetite for Wonder shows us this beginning."--Penn Jillette, author of God No! and Every Day is an Atheist Holiday
"Told with frankness and eloquence, warmth and humor, this is ... a truly entertaining and enlightening read and I recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of Dawkins the man and the rightful place of science in our modern world."--Lawrence Krauss, Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, author of A Universe from Nothing and Physics of Star Trek
An early memoir from the world's most famous atheist, and scientist.
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