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　　The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and

best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration,

a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to

reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits

the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote

about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are

moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for

novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay

Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and

Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection

ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter,

reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the

examined life.

Introduction to the American Edition

1 Science and Sensibility

　A Devil's Chaplain

　What is Tree?

　Gaps in the Mind

　Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair

　Trial By Jury

　Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls

　Postmodernism Disrobed

　The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle

2 Light Will Be Thrown

　Light Will Be Thrown

　Darwin Triumphant

　The 'Information Challenge'

　Genes Aren't Us

　Son of Moore's Law

3 The Infected.Mind

　Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers

　Viruses of the Mind

　The Great Convergence

　Dolly and the Cloth Heads

　Time to Stand Up

4　They Told Me, Heraclitus

　Lament for Douglas

　Eulogy for Douglas Adams

　Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton

　Snake Oil

5　Even the Ranks of Tuscany

　Reioicing in Multifarious Nature

　The Art of the Developable

　Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends

　Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress

　Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight

6　There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us

　Ecology of Genes

　Out of the Soul of Africa

　I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys

　Heroes and Ancestirs

7　A Prayer for My Daughter

　Good and Bad Reasons for Believing

Endnotes

Index

　　Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned

throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology

before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of

the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995.

His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual

works of our time., They include The Selfish Gene (1976), River Out

of Eden (1995), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1999).

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一位著名电影明星“每次沐浴时，都会在浴缸的四角放上四块水晶簇”。无疑，这和下述的冥想秘诀有着某种神秘的联系。

冥想室中，四块水晶的每一块，“被设定了程序”，会投射出柔和的、充满爱的、让人放松的水晶能量，传递给每一位冥想小组的人。然后水晶会产生晶莹的正能量磁场，包围住房间里的每一个人。

这样的话语是一种骗局。听上去很“科学”，足以迷惑无知者。“设定程序”是你用计算机做的事。把这个词放在水晶上毫无意义。“能量”和“磁场”在物理学中是被谨慎界定的概念。没有那些诸如“充满爱”或者“晶莹的”能量，不管是不是积极的形容。

或是把（“坚硬的”）钉子放在枕头下去增加男性的性能力。

下次被“感冒”折磨时，试试下面这种实验：拿着你的水晶，想象有黄光穿透它。然后把水晶放进一个水罐，第二天饮用里面的水；每隔两小时喝一杯。你会获得惊奇的发现！不管怎样，感冒时每隔两小时喝一次水是好主意。在水里放上一块水晶并没有额外的效果。特别是，没有“想象出来的”有色光会改变水晶或水的构成。

随便去一家博物馆，看看矿物收藏。哪怕是到一家现代商店里，看看陈列的水晶，以及一并陈列的一切不知所谓的用于低俗骗局的装置。那些水晶才不会回应你的努力，不论是要把它们设定为冥想专用“程序”，还是把温暖、有爱的思想“献给”它们。水晶根本不会治愈你，或是让房间充满“内在的平静”和“超能量”。但是多数水晶非常美丽，当我们了解了水晶的形状、各个琢面的角度、从内部闪耀而出的七色光——所有这些精准地解释了原子作用模式背后是什么，肯定会为这份美丽加分。

富勒烯（Buckminsterfullerene），是一种有着60个碳原子的优雅球体，由20个六边形和12个五边形交织形成。该命名是为了纪念具有想象力的美国建筑师巴克敏斯特·富勒（Buckminster Fuller）（在他年岁很大时，我曾有幸见过他[2]），这种球体也因此被亲切地称为巴基球（buckyball）。它们能够聚合成更大的晶体。像石墨层片一样，巴基球有很好的润滑性，大概是因为它们的球状外形：大概可以像小滚珠一样起作用。

我仅仅举水晶的例子，因为我必须得在什么地方画条界线。但是“星座”一直以来大概也和水晶一样。还有“天使”、“通灵”、“心灵感应”、“量子疗法”、“顺势疗法”、“风水”。人类容易受骗的程度没有极限。我们是温顺的奶牛，急于成为骗子和江湖术士的牺牲品，由他们榨取，养肥了他们。任何一个准备好滥用科学语言和科学奇迹的人，都将会过得富足。

但是这一切，水晶球占卜术、星座、诞生石、灵线等等，不就是一点儿无害的玩笑吗？如果人们愿意相信诸如占星术或者水晶疗法之类的垃圾，干吗不放任他们？可是，想想他们将要失去的，让人难过。在真正的科学中，有太多的奇迹。宇宙已经很神秘了，无须术士、萨满、通灵骗子再搭把手。这些最多是侵蚀灵魂的消遣。最糟的是，他们是危险的投机商人。

书籍介绍

The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.