If only Carl was around long enough to do Audio Books, his voice is so easy to listen to.

@sstills951

Жыл бұрын

I’ll do the audio books for you if you want.

@magnificentmuttley154

11 ай бұрын

👌 I agree. He & David Attenborough are the easiest narrators to listen to, & Leonard Nimoy

@sstills951

11 ай бұрын

@@magnificentmuttley154 Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones have good voices too. Benedict Cumberbach as well. George Takei.

@magnificentmuttley154

11 ай бұрын

*@S Stills* Ah! Thank you for reminding me about those gents. Im getting flakey in my middle age To my GenX generation & that of my parents the Boomers, I didnt realize just how many heroes we had, many of them very scientifically-minded: Leonard Nimoy, Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Julius Sumner Miller, & although they didnt appear in front of a camera often, Alan Landsburg & Jameson Brewer. Other than being addicted to PBS Specials, as host of In Search Of..., Leonard Nimoy's profound shaping of my way of thinking as a 70s child cannot be overstated I spent 25 years of life in the automotive repair industry. I still work, but Im planning on finishing my bachelor's while I continue to teach music. Point is I was always an artistic type, not an analytic type. But when I look back at the richness we had in learning about science, science history, & archaeology thanks to these men, its mind-boggling. Throughout the 70s & 80s our education was supplied by the National Geographic Specials, Nova, In Search Of..., Nature & a nonstop supply of one-time BBC & PBS specials Thankfully today we still have Morgan Freeman, Benedict Cumberbach, James Earl Jones, William Shatner & a few others. I shudder to think what a void today's children & 'teens will be stuck with when theyre gone Thank You for contributing! 💜

@sstills951

11 ай бұрын

@@magnificentmuttley154 well automotive repair requires analytics, so don’t sell yourself short. I’m a driveway mechanic myself and have only owned older cars. We have to sometimes get inventive when it comes to repairs. I was born in 85 so only caught Carl Sagans end career. But there are great thinkers out there for the younger generation. Prof Brian Cox is great. I’ve fallen asleep to his stuff many times.

I love Carl Sagan's voice, and I love how each word seems to go in a long process in his head before he pronounces it.

@magnificentmuttley154

11 ай бұрын

When I watched _The Cosmos_ for the first time at Age 11 (in 1982), I watched to understand science. When I watched _Cosmos_ again as a young man (I was 20 in 1991), I watched to understand the man, Carl Sagan To me it always stood out that although an Atheist, Carl said he would accept the existance of God if only he could prove it. His humility & neverending questioning of himself are the heart of his intelligence Can't help but think that if he is in heaven, he talks for hours about time, space, matter, & the countless phenomena of it all, whether among the angels, or among his greatest contemporaries: Albert Einstein Julius Sumner Miller Edwin Hubble Isaac Asimov Leonard Nimoy Jameson Brewer Alan Dinehart George Carlin

@DreamsOfLegend

Ай бұрын

​@@magnificentmuttley154did you know that Hugo Weaving when he played the role of Agent Smith modeled his speaking voice after Carl Sagan? I think he did a fantastic job!

@magnificentmuttley154

Ай бұрын

@@DreamsOfLegend Im at a loss, because if I'd seen whichever movie that is, I would know who Agent Smith is! 🤷 But thank you for mentioning him & Hugo Weaving. I will find that movie

@magnificentmuttley154

Ай бұрын

Im at a loss. If Id seen that movie, Id know who Agent Smith & Hugo Weaving are 🤷 Thank you for mentioning him, though. I will find that movie!

@DreamsOfLegend

Ай бұрын

​@@magnificentmuttley154one of the greatest movies of the 90s: The Matrix... a VERY intellectual movie DESPITE all the action and adventure in it!

Yes Democritus was way ahead of his time. always admired his idea. "Nothing exists except atoms and space; everything else is opinions."

Eternally thankful to Carl Sagan for this series. It put me on a path in my college years, and haven't suffered from diminished curiosity since. Couple of brief notes: Democritus inherited 100 talents from his father. So that puts the idea of "Rather being poor in a democracy than rich in a tyranny" in perspective. The persecution of Anaxagoras can be seen as intolerance against science, but it's more likely that he was prosecuted by Cleon for being an ally of Pericles. The sculptor Phidias was also prosecuted in an attempt to undermine Pericles' power and Athenian democracy.

@BrucknerMotet

Жыл бұрын

After reading Plato's 7th Letter, with its account of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse, it puts me in a mood to not doubt that someone like Anaxagoras could have gotten caught up in anti-Pericles sentiment.

@anonymoushuman8344

2 ай бұрын

Both political persecution and religious intolerance could have been involved.

I heart Sagan. Wish I would have been more into science when he was still alive.

@mortalclown3812

Жыл бұрын

Never too late to dig.

@magnificentmuttley154

11 ай бұрын

I agree 100%. Carl Sagan, Leonard Nimoy, Burgess Meredith, Keith David, & numerous other PBS hosts each have a body of work in film, easy to envelope yourself in. They have done for modern science education what Ken Burns & Marc Samels have done for history

Democritus is awesome

Dr Sagan we miss you

I recently watched this part of Cosmos, and wondered how much of what we have from the Ancients was originally theirs and how much of it was introduced by later scribes who could introduce their ideas while copying manuscripts. Not to diminish the contributions of the Ionians, but it might be that some progress was still being made in secret through the Dark Ages, in forms of modifications of already existing texts / pseudepigrapha, to hide the thinker from the Church. If so - THANK YOU!

@toragpoons Ya gotta hand it to Sagan, the man had swagger. I've noticed he also had a thing for apples. He uses them in so many of his lectures. Truly a beautiful soul. RIP.

@TX_BoomSlang

10 ай бұрын

🥧

Democritus was an incredible mind.

We watched Cosmos when it first came out. My dad (in his late 40’s) hated the series because he had no clue what he was talking about. My mother (early 40’s) only watched to see and hear him talk. Me - senior in school and science geek, on the other hand - knew a bunch of stuff and was learning from him.

Democritus was the prime example of genius

"Poverty in a democracy is far better than wealth in a tyrany"

@SergyMilitaryRankings

10 ай бұрын

Spoken like someone who's never been in poverty

@zanly5039

10 ай бұрын

@@SergyMilitaryRankings it's a quote from Democritus, i think

@SergyMilitaryRankings

10 ай бұрын

@@zanly5039 I know

@k.t.5405

10 ай бұрын

@@SergyMilitaryRankings

@SergyMilitaryRankings

10 ай бұрын

@@k.t.5405 spoken exactly like someone who's always lived in a first world country and never lived in such poverty, anybody who says they would prefer third world poverty over living working class in a Chinese like society, is someone who's never lived in third world poverty, I'd rather not be aloud to criticise the government and have a roof over my head, clean water and food than live in a shack with no electricity, no access to clean water and little medical care. It's obvious you're talking from a privileged first world position.

ASMR that I don't want to sleep to because I want to learn. Dr.Sagan top 10 people to go back in time and have a conversation with.

You know a video is good when it has ZERO dislikes.

@mortalclown3812

Жыл бұрын

Still glad KZread removed the dislike count from view: it helped to disempower chronic snarkoholism.

@Bhatt_Hole

11 ай бұрын

@@mortalclown3812 Nay. It was a horrible decision. Thankfully there are solutions to show it again.

@carminecampfiresong

9 ай бұрын

Made it easy for people in power to feign popularity

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. - DAN BARKER

if only he were still among us i would vote for the first and last time for sagan. his policys would be irrelevent, he is sagan.

@Skedarking85 - I admitted this today in a meeting with co-workers about people who had influenced me--that I wish I had been more into science while Sagan was alive.

The mystics are, unfortunately, STILL holding ground.

@tartgreenapple

Жыл бұрын

How so?

@MikehMike01

Жыл бұрын

yay

@shadetreader

Жыл бұрын

Only because we foolishly continue legitimising reactionaries like Republicans and Tories.

@alxtnt57

Жыл бұрын

agreed

@LeahsLover

Жыл бұрын

Only because no one has properly understood them.

Although Carl Sagan is no longer with us, he as achieved a sort of immortality few can know. His existence made the world a better place and he has enriched the lives of those he left behind.

Slightly off-topic, but it just hit me that Carl sounds a bit like Agent Smith

“The mystics were beginning to win” That line always cuts deep for me. Science is real, folks

@jerometaperman7102

Жыл бұрын

It has happened again and again throughout human history and it leads to misery. It is happening now with those who promote the laughable so called creation science. Societies that allow the mystics to rule fall behind those who support science.

@shadetreader

Жыл бұрын

We cannot let today's "mystics" win. #AbolishTheGOP #KickOutTheTories

@shamwow9889

Жыл бұрын

OH MY SCIENCE

@k.t.5405

10 ай бұрын

Can't convince them Iron, its mental EBOLA... Nothing you can do

Close enough to move things forward.

you have some great stuff here

who is watching this both in 2017 and for school XD

@fifihalo9009

6 жыл бұрын

me XD

Democritus sounds like a top G

That is admirable for the time. It's amazing to think of how difficult it would be to intuitively come up with that, having no means to empirically verify it. However, if nothing exists except atoms and space, and everything else is just opinions, then would that mean that that statement is an opinion? Or, is consciousness more than a sum of it's parts?

@cosmodradek

2 ай бұрын

Actually, this and every statement is also atoms and space.

That's some hairdo 😆 (And eyeshadow the make up artist has used !)

The best 😩

Wonder what he thinks about the survival of consciousness now. Rest in paradise, Professor.

That note is now the Euro

Mystics were beginning to win? Now where have I heard that before...

There could come a time when that would no longer be true. Genetic research into the aging process has found some amazing things, it's just a question of how long it takes us to make the things we've learned applicable.

Sagan loves apples, see 3D to 4D Shift. Newton influence? For sure

HellO, Imm Carl-Sss-agannnn. And today-we're lOOking at. Staarrrrrrzzzz... MIllionzz upon BIllionzz of. Starrrrrzzz

@IscinPostremo That just blew my mind.

I still miss Carl

I want that hoodie

At the end of the clip, speaking (ironically enough) of intolerance for unconventional views and the religious persecution of Anaxagoras, he says, "The mystics were beginning to win." I do hope he got some letters from scientifically informed mystics and scholars of the history of mysticism about that. Mystics have often faced persecution by religious authorities. Unlike literal minded forms of religious orthodoxy, mystical traditions tend not to be at odds with the empirical sciences. I hope he eventually got his head out of his butt about that.

very nice video in that video is carl sagan in Greece ?

@TX_BoomSlang

10 ай бұрын

Yes.

Sounds like today.

it's never late for science !

@ceciliateixeira5195

5 жыл бұрын

no is not

how do i get the full episodes?

@ceciliateixeira5195

5 жыл бұрын

ask google

@ricois3 The fruit of knowledge perhaps?

💘💘💕💕💖💖

@crazythunder83 You are exactly right.

ATOMS!!!

@CthuluHasChannel He says as he argues.

3:08 the muununsun were…gods.

min 3:47 "The mystics (wack jobs) were beginning to win..." Hmmm...its human nature Carl, call it MENTAL EBOLA. Game over.

@DemoticVEVO Everyone dies.

Did Democritus actually use the apple for example? If he did id find it funny, that isnt that what newton used for his theory? 💭💭

New study suggests the moon is a God...

@jimmicreesti .... and to a (much) lesser extent, the mis-punctuation of the likes of William Shatner and Christopher Walken... How's your impression then? :)

Neil's version of the Cosmos breaks this story down very well.

@IscinPostremo Aha! I made a similar observation. Only I made it a cross between Weaving and er. Kermit the Frog! :

Where is any verification found that Abdera was considered the home of dumbells? I'm inclined to think he made that part up in order to equate himself with Democritus, with his "the Brooklyn of its time" remark.

@okd521

11 ай бұрын

Republicans would cancel Democritus today. They would start making laws against whatever he taught.

How did he cut the apple then talk for two minutes and not have the apple oxidized?

this guy sounds like Agent Smith from the matrix. just thought someone should point that out

@savazvodinsky8475

2 жыл бұрын

Broooooo idk if u still around but holy shit ur right

This isn't the way Carl Sagan sounded in real life, was it? He was probably a very nervous guy most of the time, which could explain the marijuana use in his case.

@patkennedy2620

2 жыл бұрын

Carl Sagan was noted for his soothing calm deep voice. I followed his career from his Cosmos days 1980’s & he always a appeared a calm guy. He is sadly missed.

Hopefully these men went to Elysium:-)

yes, except for chemistry, microbiology, biology, neurophysiology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, microeconomics, macroeconomics, political science, astrology and all the intermediate sciences connecting and aligning these patterns together. H20 is not the same as Hydrogen and Oxygen. Hydrogen burns while Oxygen fans the flames. However, in combination, these elements extinguish flame. While everything may be made of atoms, their synthetic forms are not irreducible to atomic substances.

"Democritus may have come for Abdyra, but he was no dummy. Wow, that's REALLY racist mate.

@susanarsoniadou3588

Жыл бұрын

Not racist. Who what where is Abdyra? Sounds like an insect.

@Stogie2112

Жыл бұрын

You misunderstood what Sagan was saying. The ancient city of Abdera was a wealthy trading site, so it was invaded and sacked many times. By the mid 300's BCE, Abdera had lost its prominence, and it had become synonymous with stupidity (according to some people, like the Romans).

@kingpriapatius5832

8 ай бұрын

@@Stogie2112 Any references that show your point?

Im pretty sure those are Greek Gypsies...

I see Mr. Bean in him

@Monstratic0900 Agent Smith was loosely based around Sagan. When Sagan started his career he was a bit like the 'Neo' of science, a poacher if you like, but then became a gamekeeper, or agent, spewing out 'official' science.

The woke mystics are back :(

I don't think he would approve of your blind faith, even if it is in the right place.

...........I watched these Carl Sagan "things", on TV, years ago. And failed then to see them for what they are. Incomplete and pretentious. Even his "friendly" style, now sounds overbearing. Presumptuous not a little bit.

I get so annoyed at Carl Sagan's constant pushing of atheistic materialism. He literally says here that "the conclusions of Democritus were right." Lol (face palm). This includes that the soul doesn't exit. It's annoying when materialists assert things they have no idea about. The conclusion of Democritus that "the soul doesn't exist," or that perceptions themselves are atoms of different shapes, is totally wrong or at the very least one could never say with certitude. Arrogant materialists, like Sagan, talk out of their ass too much. This is why physicists make terrible philosophers. If Sagan wanted to TRY to represent reality better, he would've said "Some of Democritus' basic conclusions indeed apply to aspects of THE PHYSICAL world." That's as far as you can go. Going beyond that makes Sagan a bad philosopher.