Unweaving the Rainbow
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A 1998 non-fiction book by Richard Dawkins, exploring the relationship between science and art, and arguing that science does not diminish the beauty of the world but rather unveils new layers of it. Dawkins uses the metaphor of "unweaving the rainbow" to counter the idea that scientific explanation takes away from the wonder of natural phenomena.
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Richard Dawkins. One of the books that he that he wrote was on this topic and it was it was called unweaving the rainbow.
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"The speaker mentions Richard Dawkins and specifically cites "Unweaving the Rainbow" as a book Dawkins wrote on the topic of science revealing beauty, which is relevant to the discussion about how understanding genetics can be seen as either reducing mystery or unveiling new beauty."
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