Science in the Soul

For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. Science in the Soul brings together forty-two essays, polemics, and paeans—all written with Dawkins’s characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural 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.

'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,

'This Dawkins is a dangerous guy. Like Marx. Or Darwin'     W. Daniel Hillis

'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 Dennett

'Dawkins at his most delicious. These are some of the finest treasures of non-fiction you'll find anywhere'   Derren Brown

'One of the best non-fiction writers alive today'   Steven Pinker

'It is time literature's highest award be gfranted to a stintist whose writings have changed not just science but society . . . Science in the Soul is the perfect embodiment of Nobel quality literature.'   Michael Shermer