Wonder has inspired beautiful poetry and great science, from Dylan Thomas and Rachel Carson to Newton and Einstein.
Wonder was once thought to be a religious emotion, but now we know that the more information we have, the more likely we are to feel wonder. The book, "Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant" leads the reader through the voices of famous scientists and poets, up to the modern vision of reality, where trillions of cells configure life out of octillions of atoms, where space telescopes peer across billions of light years, and where scientific laws themselves must be re-invented to account for the new world unfolding around us.
The more deeply we feel, think, and explore, and the more open-minded we remain, the more wonder can become the center of our life. Wonder is a state of mind and body in which we can simultaneously hold the most information, the most complex insights, and our deepest feeling about the nature of the world out of which we have emerged.
Most wonderful of all to us is our own bodies built with atoms, some of which may be as old as the universe, and with unique information systems that make every person an advancing edge of a newly rearranged universe.
For readers of poetry, philosophy, theology, and science alike, this book integrates a lifetime of thought into a new way to see, think and feel. It is rigorously scientific and emotionally elevating.