You will rip through it in three hours, tops. But you’ll wish it went on longer, because it’s funny and smart as hell. I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud.
这本书,最多三个小时你就能读完。但你会希望它再多讲一些,因为这本书写得既幽默风趣又富有智慧。每当读到令我大笑不已的部分,我总要打断梅琳达读给她听。
The Magic of Reality, by Richard Dawkins.
《现实的魔法:真相》,作者:克林顿·道金斯
Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, has a gift for making science enjoyable. This book is as accessible as the TV series Cosmos is for younger audiences—and as relevant for older audiences. It’s an engaging, well-illustrated science textbook offering compelling answers to big questions, like “how did the universe form? and “what causes earthquakes?
道金森是牛津大学的教授,著名的演化生物学家。在他的笔下,科学变得生动有趣。这本书就同科学纪录片《宇宙时空之旅》那样好理解,老少皆宜。这是一本十分引人入胜、配图精彩的科学手册,对一些深奥的问题给出了十分有力的回答,比如,“宇宙是如何形成的?、“什么引发的地震?。
It’s also a plea for readers of all ages to approach mysteries with rigor and curiosity. Dawkins’s antagonistic (and, to me, overzealous) view of religion has earned him a lot of angry critics, but I consider him to be one of the great scientific writer of all time.
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