TV host Magnus Magnusson tackles big questions about our universe in this educational colloquium that brings together three of the 20th century’s leading scientific thinkers: theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, astronomer Carl Sagan and author Arthur C. Clarke. They explore everything from the Big Bang Theory to the expansion of the universe, black holes, extraterrestrial life and the origins of creativity.
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Carl Sagan – God, the Universe and Everything Else
Carl Sagan – ‘a Glorious Dawn’ Ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)
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Lyrics: [Sagan] If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch You must first invent the universe Space is filled with a network of wormholes You might emerge somewhere else in space Some when-else in time The sky calls to us If we do not destroy ourselves We will one day venture to the stars A still more glorious dawn awaits Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billion suns The rising of the milky way The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths Of exquisite interrelationships Of the awesome machinery of nature I believe our future depends powerfully On how well we understand this cosmos In which we float like a mote of dust In the morning sky But the brain does much more than just recollect It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes it generates abstractions The simplest thought like the concept of the …
A Select List of Great Carl Sagan Quotes
- “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
- “Space is filled with a network of wormholes. You might emerge somewhere else in space, some when-else in time.”
- “The sky calls to us if we do not destroy ourselves. We will one day venture to the stays.”
- “A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise, a morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way.”
- ”Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
- ”I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic and national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
- “I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”
- “The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. We have waded in and the waters seem inviting”
- “The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature.”
- “The simplest through like the concept of the number one has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.”
- “How lucky we are to live in this time—the first moment in human history when we are in fact visiting other worlds.”
