Here it is, the beginning of my new Substack regime and my first Monday Reading. Enjoy!
P.S. Reading from Unweaving the Rainbow reminded me of the words of another great writer on the beauty and poetry of science: Douglas Adams. I can’t resist sharing his impromptu response when asked by Dawkins, one of his close friends, in Dawkins’ 1996 documentary film Break the Science Barrier what it was about science that “really gets your blood running”:
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened—it's just wonderful. And ... the opportunity to spend seventy or eighty years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
Monday Reading: From Richard Dawkins' 'Unweaving the Rainbow' (1998)