The Sacred Depths of Nature

ISBN-13: 9780195136296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Ursula Goodenough

Opis

This eloquent volume reconciles our contemporary scientific understand ing of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity. Addressing ideas like evolution, emotions, sexuality, and death, The Sacred Depths of Nature brings rich, uncluttered detail to the workings of nature in general and of living creatures in particul ar. Goodenough's clear thinking and writing will allow even non-scient ists to appreciate that the origins of life and the universe are no le ss meaningful in light of our scientific understanding of them. At the end of each chapter, her spiritual reflections respond to nature's co mplexity with a vibrant emotional intensity and sense of reverent wond er.

Recenzje

"Goodenough's luminous prose evokes images and feelings more commonly associated with poetry than science, and her meditations on meaning are infused with wonder and joy.... For a scientist like myself, Goodenough's elegant narratives provide a refreshing way to encounter familiar material. I was especially impressed with her ability to cut right to the quick, so that within a few short pages the reader is whisked from the big bang to the emergence of our planet and the birth of life on earth."--Scientific American

O autorze

Ursula Goodenough is Professor of Biology at Washington University. One of America's leading cell biologists, she is the author of a bestselling textbook on genetics, and has served as President of the American Society of Cell Biology and of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.