Modern sciense writing.
Autor: Richard Dawkins, "Modern sciense writing."
ISBN: 03325648975 | 2008 edition | PDF | 438 Pages | 2.20 MB
ISBN: 03325648975 | 2008 edition | PDF | 438 Pages | 2.20 MB
Standing on our microscopic fragment of a grain of sand, we attempt to discover the nature and purpose of the universe which surrounds our home in space and time. Our fi rst impression is something akin to terror. We fi nd the universe terrifying because of its vast meaningless distances,terrifying because of its inconceivably long vistas of time which dwarf human history to the twinkling of an eye, terrifying because of our extreme loneliness, and because of the material insignifi cance of our home in space—a millionth part of a grain of sand out of all the sea-sand in the world.But above all else, we fi nd the universe terrifying because it appears to be indifferent to life like our own; emotion, ambition and achievement, art and religion all seem equally foreign to its plan. Perhaps indeed we ought to say it appears to be actively hostile to life like our own.