abiding interest in learning about life

southcoast reflection

When I was a teenager  one of the first books I purchased were called the chemistry of life,  I just looked it up and there are revised editions still available, and Steven Rose the writer has written much else.
I still remember the area in the bookshop in Princes St Dunedin.  So why the interest?  Chosen because it explored areas not yet being taught in school.
Steven Rose mentions in the preface to the 1999 edition that he is not sure what in this book inspired people.
I think that it was a simple overview made it accessible, and as a teenager studying chemistry it built on what I already knew.  Why wouldn't people be interested in how the chemistry of life works?  The ultimate secret much unraveled in the intervening years but not yet fully understood.

Understanding the brain’s mechanisms and dynamics has proved biology’s most intractable – and fascinating - problem over the three centuries since the birth of modern science. 

Prospects and Perils of the New Brain Sciences: a twenty year timescale*in 2009 by Steven Rose

 So the morning discovery is to find an author who interested me in the late 1960's is still interested in the field and still interests me...
My battered copy is dusty in the bookcase, but says with me