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Science in the Soul

Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

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Science in the Soul

By: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
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The audiobook edition of Science in the Soul by Richard Dawkins, read by the author, Lalla Ward and Gillian Somerscales.

This edition includes a bonus PDF of a bibliography and references.

Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science.

Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to society; and for the importance of the scientific way of thinking – particularly in today’s ‘post-truth’ world.

With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one. Alongside the explications, the celebrations and the controversies are wonderfully funny ventures into satire and parody, and moving personal reflections in memory and honour of others.

Science in the Soul is a sparkling showcase for Professor Dawkins' rapier wit, the clarity, precision and vigour he brings to an argument, the beauty of his prose, the depth of his feeling and his capacity for joy.

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Critic reviews

[Dawkins] is a thunderously gifted science writer (Oliver Moody)
One of the best non-fiction writers alive today
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
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)
A writer of tremendous clarity and force...in full polemical flight, Dawkins is a marvel. (Kevin Powers)
This Dawkins is a dangerous guy. Like Marx. Or Darwin.
The most influential man of reason…intellectually rigorous to a fault. (Oliver Thring)

With his latest book, ‘Science in the Soul’, Richard Dawkins continues the legacy of Carl Sagan, though of course, in a more combative mode...
Richard Dawkins is one of the best science popularisers of our times. He is also an eminent evolutionary biologist...
All the articles in this compilation are ultimately soul-elevating in the sense that they emphasise the importance of reason and spirit of science in approaching many of the problems which we may think as being outside the realm of science or domains where inducing a hostility to a scientific approach is possible....
Dawkins is an extraordinarily talented author and persuader ...Dawkins also comes across in this collection of essays as a warm rational scientist who is interestingly so open to the innocent human fascination for the grandeur of nature.

(Aravindan Neelakandan)
Dawkins at his most delicious. These are some of the finest treasures of non-fiction you'll find anywhere
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This collection of works by the author, with some editorial pieces added in, is a masterpiece.

Richard Dawkins is about as clear a thinker as one could hope to ever meet. His entire thought process is so accessible and rational, you will find yourself drawn in inexorably.

The narration is first class both in terms of clarity and speed.

Be forewarned: this work may, as it did to me, make you weep for the loss of potential engendered in modern humanity. It will, however, bring you through this despair and into the light of possibility and wonder, the hallmark of Professor Dawkin's arguments.

Prepare to ride the rollercoaster that is scientific discovery and be amazed by all the things that you did not know. Those previously unknown subjects will have a bright torch shone upon them and leave you wondering, how you could ever have failed to see something so patently obvious before?

I cannot recommend this book highly enough, for unlike Professor Dawkins, my language fails me. Instead, be assured this book will educate you thoroughly, everyone, from child to Doctor, from the curious to the academic.

Listen to this book.

A must for anyone who enjoys logical argument.

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We can all learn from these writings. Essential reading for life, unless you have no interest in the world?

Everyone should hear this

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great read for those with a open mind. variety of topics covered all very intresting put.

Outstanding content

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A great book from one of the most rational and intelligent people that have ever lived. If you've never read one of his previous books, this would be a good one to begin with. Then read the rest.

Exceptional!

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Aside from the "humour" section, which I found literally sleep inducing, this collection of popular science writings is inspiring and satisfying. I found the different voices jarring to begin with, but there's enough of Dawkins there to make this a worthwhile purchase.

Food for the mind

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