Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins Houghton Mifflin , 352 pages, 1998 In reading Richard Dawkins I am reminded of an anecdote told by Werner Heisenberg. That’s when my giddy glide toward Pinker fandom comes to a screeching halt, because this paragraph is a ghastly example of good prose. Unweaving the Rainbow Quotes Showing 1-29 of 29 “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade.Lamia John Keats 1820. By now, I’m bubbling with enthusiasm, and eagerly turn to his first example, the opening lines of “Unweaving the Rainbow” by Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. Dawkins addresses the … Heisenberg and several other … Drawing room of dukes; Barcodes in the stars; Barcodes on the air; Barcodes at the bar; Hoodwink'd with. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. If one can even conceive of how to “Unweave a rainbow” then surely he, or she, would enjoy putting one back together. Slide over one color to reweave the rainbow. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder is a 1998 book by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author discusses the relationship between science and the arts from the perspective of a scientist. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder is a book by Opening lines; Summary. Consider the following passage from Richard Dawkins's book Unweaving the Rainbow: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.