How wonderful to hear Dr Bronowski speak as it were off the Cuff. Brilliant .

The Year is 2024. I've loved Mr Bronowski for many years and watching this interview today for the first was like watching The Ascent of Man and all the many interviews I have seen him in. He's intelligent, thought-provoking, electrifying. It was an absolute pleasure and an honour to see this interview. Such a pleasure for the mind and spirit. However, I also have to mention how impressed I was with Mr Day. My God, how dumbed-down the world has become! Most interviewers today are incapable of such an intelligent conversation. Will we ever see the likes of both men ever again?

What a wonderful example of a human being. That's what authentic is folks.

Ascent of Man is mindblowing.

He is my hero. I love his book 😊

What a man! He was taken from us too soon!

I find his mind to be stunningly composed. A striking intellect.

That must be why he said he couldn't run the mile in four minutes! I was 13 when The Ascent Of Man came out, I found it an absolutely fascinating programme, thanks to his down to earth, very personal style. It was as though he was talking just to me. Brilliant man, as shown in this excellent interview.

Thankfully there has been an upsurge in academic and scientific programming on British TV. Jacob Brownoski is still the yardstick they measure themselves against. A real pleasure to watch this.

What a wonderful and powerful man Jacob Bronowski was. I watched The Ascent of Man in the 70s and was totally immersed by this series - I will never forget his famous quote by Oliver Cromwell, " I beseech you from The Bowels of Christ .........."

What a fascinating man. I only discovered him today and I'm hooked!

@tremainecornish2977

2 жыл бұрын

May I suggest you not only watch the series, 'The Ascent of Man' but also the book by the same name. I read the book in the summer of 1982, sometime after I watched the series, whilst travelling across the USA, and annotated it whilst doing so. I still have it. You might also be interested in the work of his daughter. I'll leave you to do the research. ;-)

@Jamie_Pritchard

2 жыл бұрын

@@tremainecornish2977 I'll have a look. Thank you 😊

@davebloke829

Жыл бұрын

The Ascent of man is a must watch! Pure brain food....something we all seem to be denied these days!

What a fascinating man! It is a privilege to listen to him.

My first year in college The Ascent of Man was offered as a Cultural Anthro course, it was very profound to me at age 17, everything made sense to me afterwards. Bronowski is a personal Hero of mine.

@anthonysimon4991

2 жыл бұрын

@@HIJK_LMNOP yes, I am a Cynic.

What a wonderful world we'd have if we were all blessed with a mind like Dr Bronowski's!

what a privilege it must have been to have a casual conversation with this man.

@rogerlephoque3704

3 жыл бұрын

A "casual" conversation with this man is beguiling even at the mere thought of it happening...

As a young man in the UK, I was so impressed by this great man that he changed my life. Since childhood I'd been interested in all things scientifically related. Prof. Bronowski set me on a path which has been with me all my life.

@mogadon7

Жыл бұрын

The Ascent Of Man - has NEVER BEEN EQUALED or bettered in 50 years.

@juliememoriesguest7958

11 ай бұрын

Found him at 14 profoundly changed my life open a world and history I wish we were taught in school and I never met anyone who had heard of him I love this man literally special person

@optimusmaximus9646

11 ай бұрын

@@mogadon7 I second that!

@optimusmaximus9646

11 ай бұрын

@@juliememoriesguest7958 Had the same impact on me when I was at school too.

Thanks for your comments! CUNY TV is proud that James Day was the chair of our advisory board from 2003 until his death in 2008, and are thrilled to be able to make "Day at Night" available again via the web.

Thank you for this, Bravo

“Where does fact end & imagination begin”..Spoken like a man who was a very deep thinker.

Great interview with thoughtful answers (today you never see someone give so much time to an answer as Bronowski does here). And the interviewer never interrupts and allows the conversationto go where it shall. Great stuff about science ( I loved the part about the pencil and the diamond), history, and literature.

Brilliance! I couldn't imagine attaining the poise of this honorable man as I watch 'ascent of man' as he intelligently describes humans beginnings, using science that til this very day, still rank supreme in the archeological records!

Michael Parkinson who died yesterday, Thursday 17 August 2023 said that his favourite interview was with this man. Parkinson met all the great Hollywood greats, and some not so great, rock starts, comics and authors but it was this man, that touched his heart and to the end, brought him to tears. A humanitarian a brilliant mind and a gentleman. If you can get the chance, try and get hold of the tv series The Ascent of Man and judge for yourself. 😊

This is a treasure. Thanks

He is so right. My maths teachers were terrible. Most bad teaching is down to bad teachers.

Let me echo my thanks, I enjoy these so much - it seems like James could interview just about anyone on any subject. What a treasure these are!

Thanks 4 the up load. Fascinating man . The Ascent of man was an awesome series.

A great teacher is perhaps one that whatever subject they discuss they make you think about learning it.

Wonderful interview. I hadn't come across James Day before. I will look forward to seeing some more of his programmes on KZread. I was particularly impressed that he asked well researched and interesting questions and then took the trouble to listen to the answers. So many of today's so-called interviewers would do well to take note!

Very interesting interview with a very interesting man. As a side note, I find it refreshing to watch an interview with pauses where the person is thinking before answering. I can't stand much of how much of media is presented today.

@tarnopol

3 жыл бұрын

I would agree but I tuned out after the paragraph break. No pauses allowed! :)

2 жыл бұрын

Actually he has a braille magic 8 ball in his pocket which he consults before every answer.

An truly amazing individual

A great polymath in action. And so passionate, too.

Jacob Bronowski 1908 - 1974 Polish-British Mathematician, Historian of Science, Theatre Author, Poet and Inventor.

R.I.P.. sir. We'll miss you forever.

thank you for all your hard work jacob and jd, i'll always remember you this way

@MrFalconford

10 жыл бұрын

art

@insider_english1594

10 жыл бұрын

Donnie Mrkacek art means way (in German).

I studied Physics at university. I still remember being amazed in first year when our lecturer showed how to construct a differential equation for the motion of a spring and then solved it to show that a weight on the end of a spring will follow a sinusoidal path when the displacement is plotted vs time. I thought what he did was rather neat.

As a kid watching the Ascent of Man on TV, I naturally assumed Dr. Bronowski was perhaps a historian or a philosopher. Only much later did I learn he was actually a mathematician, and friend and colleague of the mathematican Johnny von Neumann, the physicist Leo Szilard, and that group of luminaries. He was the ultimate humanist.

Great interview. Thanks for uploading it.

Be still my heart My Pin up Man as a Young Girl Still get tye shivers when he talks 65 years Later

@ajoybaksi3654

19 күн бұрын

Wow! One of the greatest comments posted anywhere!

That's an understatement. It literally changed my life.

A true intellectual in both science and the arts and History. great interview.

Thank you for posting. Learned a lot.

Yes. I watched 'The Ascent of Man' twice and also read a book on Blake by him. I also see the connections of art, literature, science, Mathematics -- all disciplines. Today we, perhpaps from necessity, specialize and neglect philosophy. Forget the nature of knowledge. Eliot, great poet essayist etc, put the boot into Blake so to speak so it is good Bronowski came up with his book.

I agree w/ Bruno's point about math teachers... There may be no more valuable educator.. It's so easy to be frustrated by numbers

Diamond vs. pencil: what an amazing comparison!

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He's as refreshing as my books on Amazon

Always fascinating to listen too, but I feel that he enjoyed performing to the camera and sometimes overdid the long pauses, appearing to wait for his mental machinery to start up and provide him with another stunning response. I believe his daughter, Lisa Jardine, discovered some less than admirable facts about his involvement in wartime bombing strategies and planning. Although an exceptional and many layered human being, not without his 'warts' and blemishes.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

I would hope there is factual basis for your comment, otherwise this man's reputation is besmirched a bit ...

I first heard and read Bronowski in 1972. It is because of him (and Richard Feynman) that I majored in Zoology...and, English, with an emphasis on the poetry of William Blake.

@ShikataGaNai100

7 жыл бұрын

...and, may my high school math "teacher," Jack Conklin, Napa High School, Napa, CA, rot in hell. He tried his best to ruin science for me...fortunately, he failed.

@optimusmaximus9646

11 ай бұрын

Bronowski and Feynman....my goodness, what a pair of intellectual giants!!

One of the most interesting person of the century ...

Origin of Knowledge is top 3 books of all time for me.

Jacob Bronowski's best stuff is "Science and Human Values", "Magic, Science, and Civilization", and "The Origin of Knowledge and Imagination." "Ascent of Man" is just cute little tidbits in comparison.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

In the 'modern age' (now), a bit of A-V (audio visual) assist goes a long ways in getting the man's point across ...

Did anyone else think those chairs are ridiculously close together?

@dancingvirgil

4 жыл бұрын

Yes but there was no social distancing back then.

@tarnopol

3 жыл бұрын

He was serious about bringing the two cultures closer together.

@markbaker2629

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought when I opened this clip to view

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

Depth of field distortion contributed by the camera?

@siliconRain

2 жыл бұрын

@@uploadJ no

You Tube has the definitive Michael Parkinson/Jacob Bronowski interview - Parkinson’s interview is more emotional than this particular ‘clinical’ interview.

I don't get it. There's a black background, no bright colors or lights, no graphics, no yelling and screaming. There are just two people communicating and listening to each other. This is what used to pass for a talk show? By the way, that sonnet he quotes at random is my favorite one by Shakespeare and one of my favorite poems--not that I'm all that well-versed, if you'll forgive a pun.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

Its not a "talk show". Its one man interviewing another ...

Hello suitabledude, Origins is top two for me!

Here, here.

sorry if I'm not the only one to be asking (if you've seen this request), but any idea where I could get a transcript of this interview?

They just don't do talk shows like this anymore!

"I learned the word for water and the formula for h2o at about the same time".

Yes, more about the interviewer than the interviewee.

Pretencious

Youu go maaan : the only person that konws whether it is right or wrong is me i am rather insensitive to the opinions of other people. if I think it is good then to hell with what anybody else says

thank g-d for calculators. nuke maths is a bummer with out them these days.

He is searching for a beautiful way to relate mathematics and nature and not doing very well unless you already agree with him. I say this as I can see what he is trying to say but a friend of mine could not. I think he would have loved fractals and they would have much better suited the point he was trying to illustrate.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

Oops, fractals. "What are they good for?" Bronowski knew enough about repeating patterns he would have brought subject up.

@Silverhand290

2 жыл бұрын

@@uploadJ Clearly he didn't know enough to use them, as that would have illustrated the point he was trying (not very well) to make far better.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverhand290 Fractals are OVERRATED as well. I never understood this, unhealthy fascination some people have w/fractals. Plus, I don't think you have seen the entire 13 episodes in a great while ... you're "micro-focusing" on one minor aspect to the detriment of the entirety ...

@Silverhand290

2 жыл бұрын

@@uploadJ microfocusing wtf. that is an absurd term. I have not only seen the series recently, I looked em up as I read the book that Bronowski wrote originally.

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Silverhand290 Micro-focusing - I'll call it what it is then (AND not be polite this time) its NAVEL GAZING, staring into one's own belly button for too long. I'd recommend developing some balance in your life and leave the fractal aspect alone. Another word for 'fractals' - FAD. Look for New Scientist article titled: Forum: Twisting the fractal knife - Differences within the world of mathematics

God knows

The interviewer seems to always want to know about easy stuff and never mathematics and humanity.

Sonnet 18 was written to a man not a woman - perhaps JB was being careful!

"Where are the Bronowski's of modern age?" ...Seriously! They're all being sensationalists a la Kaku et al.

@anthonysimon4991

3 жыл бұрын

In 2020 it seems to be Jordan Peterson.

@Jamie_Pritchard

2 жыл бұрын

@@anthonysimon4991 I'd agree

@uploadJ

2 жыл бұрын

Louis Rossmann.

Look at Bronowski's skinny legs at 2:50! He needs to ramp-up his exercise program.

ggirls , local MES ?

the interviewer knows nothing about advanced mathematics... it's irritating