La química de lo bello

Deborah García Bello, award-winning chemist and publicist, invites us in La química de lo bello to enjoy science, to unlearn the erroneous impression that it is a strict, cold and sterile discipline, and to perceive its beauty in our everyday life world. "The squawking of the seagulls, the dewy sky that anticipates a sunny day, the smell of old books, the black and white photos of the grandparents, the sea, the turnips in flower, my mother painting her lips, the magazines Sixties fashion, my neighborhood, home to urban flowers, the smell of tires, a necklace of lapis lazuli beads or a desk with engraved numbers. Thanks to chemistry, I have maintained my amazement at the everyday beauties, and I have learned to calmly enjoy the extraordinary beauties; from the happiness of an ordinary day to the fascination of a work of art. Knowing chemistry is like walking through life with eyes that look at the atomic scale. Everything beautiful, good and true is seen more clearly through scientific knowledge".