The Mysterious Universe

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i feel that scientists ought to do more to try to write in a way that's accessible to other people. We scientists would actually understand ourselves better if we wret p as if alat audience, it's hard to do. So le me, let me just giveo, i'll read some passages from the book to give your voice break here. You open with the literature of science. I love the first one you have, from sir james jean is 19 30. The mysterious universe. Our first impression is something akin to terror. But above all else, we find the universe terrifying because it appears to be indifferent to life like our own. Emotion, ambition and achievement,

In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.

This episode is heavily edited because Dawkins was having trouble with his voice, and Shermer tried to speak a little more to give Dawkins a chance to let his voice rest.