morph33
rainbow by the church macclesfield england uk June 2007
'Unweaving the Rainbow'
"My title is from Keats, who believed that Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colors. Keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are tempted by a similar view, towards the opposite conclusion. Science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry."
Richard Dawkins, 1998
Funily enough, I took this photograph on 18th June 2007 - and synchronously found Dawkins' book (which is a very good read making a case for 'poetry' in science) in a charity shop for pennies two days later...
rainbow by the church macclesfield england uk June 2007
'Unweaving the Rainbow'
"My title is from Keats, who believed that Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colors. Keats could hardly have been more wrong, and my aim is to guide all who are tempted by a similar view, towards the opposite conclusion. Science is, or ought to be, the inspiration for great poetry."
Richard Dawkins, 1998
Funily enough, I took this photograph on 18th June 2007 - and synchronously found Dawkins' book (which is a very good read making a case for 'poetry' in science) in a charity shop for pennies two days later...