Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color

by Kai Kupferschmidt

But what if the categories we use when we speak every day, quite without thinking, have an effect on our perception? If they influence the way we see the world at some fundamental level, even if only slightly, then I consider that a strong argument for taking our choice of words even more seriously. In this way, the studies on blue that I have read over the past few years have indeed changed how I view the world.