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Originally Posted by dor  John Keats, whose lines Dawkins quotes with open affection, is the hinge which opens the door of this book. It is reported by the painter and critic, Benjamin Haydon that Keats, at a dinner, with Wordsworth toasted 'confusion to the memory of Newton'. When Wordsworth asked for an explanation before he drank the toast, Keats replied 'because he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism'. There is poetry in science. It's just that most poets are deaf to its rhythm | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
I said:
I referred to dawkins quoting keats/wordsworth and setting up a false conflict between art and science,
What part of this do you not understand? |
I do not understand why you keep saying that Dawkins quotes keats/wordsworth and sets up a false conflict between art and science. That part.
The above quote is from a reviewer who incidentally states that Dawkins quotes Keats affectionately in his book. He does not refer at all to Dawkins quoting Wordsworth. Dawkins does not quote anybody at all in this reference. The reviewer recounts an anecdote from painter and critic Benjamin Haydon. If Mr. Haydon is correct in his account, the it's KEATS who has set up a conflict. If Mr. Dawkins has included this third-hand anecdote in his book, which we don't know, because neither of us has read it, we can't know the context he's using, or what he thinks of what Keats has said, until we READ THE BOOK. Which you've said you will never do. Therefore, you are declaring that you will remain forever ignorant about the very subject you denounce so indignantly. Your are propounding a deceitful prejudice.
sorry about the big words.