![]() As I try so show in the book, it’s a radical openness in which we think clearly and feel good, and connect to phenomena or people beyond ourselves. But I think that wonder is, among other things, an act of deep attention. Wonder is many things-and there are many good definitions out there of what it’s about and its place in human psychology, and so on. It was just a moment when an apparently simple phenomenon connects to much more than the thing itself. There’s a little story at the beginning of the book about a fairly mundane and yet wonderful trick of the light in my kitchen one morning. I seem to recall it wasn’t prompted by a huge scientific spectacle. Tell me about how you came to write A New Map of Wonders. Just think of the amazing pictures of astronomical phenomena such as nebulae and galaxies that are produced by modern telescopes. I think wonder is very important for individual well being and society as a whole, and in our culture science is one of the ways-arguably a leading way-in which we access it. ![]() Why are you interested in science and wonder? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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