The lovely voice of a fine old friend from the TV of my youth. Calm, intelligent, insightful and unendingly interesting... Jacob Bronowski. Jacob is almost the first grave just to the right of the entrance as you enter the old Western Highgate Cemetery London.

I first saw this BBC made series in 1973. A year later Prof. J. J. Bronowski was dead. A great loss to mankind, but earlier he had set me on the scientific path I've been on ever since and I have been eternally grateful. A great man indeed.

This series was a corner stone of my scientific endeavor.

Jacob Bronowski is the man who has had the most influence on my thinking and life in general. I have the entire series on tape and feel compelled to be refreshed by watching it at regular intervals.

Thank you so much for this. I watched the series in 1973, in my high school years, and it has stayed with me ever since that time. My husband and I are seeing it again now, in 2014, and I am even more grateful to Jacob Bronowski's educating force in my life. This is a beautiful and meaningful tribute, and I watched it with tears on my cheeks.

@kevinward2023

5 жыл бұрын

The passion and love that Jacob Bronowski poured into each syllable of his narrative is overwhelming in its inspiration and integrity...and, although some may perchance try, such a unique work cannot in my view be 'remade/upgraded', anymore than Beethoven's 7th or Mozarts 40th..

This man expanded my mind more than 12 years of school ever did.

How one interprets one’s landscape is not always predictable. I think change isn’t just destroying, but learning how to be masterful in using, attributing and expanding.

Where did the BBC go wrong ? In not continuing making inspirational programes like this Wonderful to see again

My dear Jakob Bronowski was an extraordinary inspiration in my youth. I was looking for the series half of my life. Beautiful mind. Thank you Bruno

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Late Professor Bronowski was a wonderful demonstrator.

This was the text book for my freshman humanities class at CSM. I still have a first edition text and the workbook with my self-graded quizzes. I got an A in the course along with one in Sophomore geology, I was a transfer student and freshman humanities was a required course and an easy A, not so much with Calculus for a political reason, I was the first in our family to attend college and had no idea which butts to kiss. I love the TV series, much better than some grad student's lectures.

A TV masterpiece.

I watched the series in 1973.It was an eye opener-compulsive viewing.I finally understood what all my years in high school had failed to impart,(for at least as long as the remarkable Jacob Bronowskiwas speaking).I bought the book as soon as it came out.I lent it to someone and it disappeared.I've just bought the complete set of DVD's and my computer refuses to play it.How maddening is that?

The "Truth or Certainty" episode of the "Ascent" series may be the most insightful thing ever created about the relationship between science and politics. They should make every freshman sci/engineer view it, really all college students today are in desperate need of this context.

@Neverhead35811

4 жыл бұрын

All PEOPLE need to see it. Sadly I suspect not enough will have the insight to heed those words... "Think it possible you may be mistaken."

If I were to point to a singular moment whereupon I transcended from the world of the unconscious to that of the sentient, it was during the viewing of this wonderful series many years ago. It changed my life.

@crosstimbers2

10 жыл бұрын

Yes. Before this my mind was blind.

@alfredostewart6299

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I did not knew this was a series.

I look at the Scientist that were around during my formative years Jacob Branowski, Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, David Attenborough. Such beauty, such a command of the English language, such humanism, such progressivism and ethics, such artistry, such a movement forward in technological, and scientific advancement in our culture that I can not see a society that has been created by the Corporacrats as ever rivaling these giants. You don't see these Renaissance Scientist being produced anymore. They were of my Dad's generation , and we are losing them daily. As the "small government" crowd dismantles and poo-poo's the values of art, music and sports in our schools, and poo-poos the importance of abstract thought. Our Sciences suffer greatly as a result. As society moves toward favoring the Scientist that stays quiet, makes Charmin softer and likes things that go boom. Jacobs quote above, about the plasticity of the human mind becomes more apparent, and makes me wonder whether we will ever be able to recapture a brief moment in time.

@szymonbaranowski8184

Жыл бұрын

Sagan was biased, Attenborough got indoctrinated into climatic propaganda and lost it, the same as Chomsky (but in everything else keeps sanity). We live in world full of self fooling people and sadly it especially typical to intellectual s.

Thank you Dr Bronowski , for all of your wisdom.

I just watched all of your videos in one sitting. The amount of emotion, wonder, and hope welling up inside of me right now is life-affirming. I was nearly in tears at several points throughout the viewing. Thank you for sharing such powerful sentiments from these great minds.

I love this series. I don't remember it have such emotionally manipulative sound track though, it really takes away from the meaning of the words.

I agree with NicolasCoucke, and i think it's a shame that they don't have more views. Unfortunately we're in a day and age where honey boo boo is more exciting than the world around us. One day, hopefully, the wonders of the universe will be part of a global culture.

@Oceansta

2 жыл бұрын

These days garbage in the form of TickToc visors have literally hundreds of millions of views. 😂 Such is the sad irony....

One of the best documentary filmed by BBC , if not for their best documentary "Civilization, A personal view " by Kenneth Clark, the ascent of Man would be my personal favorite.

I wish that this series would be remade! It was every bit as inspirational, if not more so, than Cosmos which was remade with Neil deGrasse Tyson this year.

@PopeJohnEdgarIV

8 жыл бұрын

+Stacie Freeman But who could fill the shoes of Bronowski? He is a great and individual mind emanated from a past generation. I'm not sure anyone could do him justice. I too would like to see the series revisited, not to be remade, but added to and expanded on, for that, we have a number of intellectuals and thinkers who are very well suited to pick up where the Professor left off. (In my opinion!)

Your videos are wonderful. Keep making them, they inspire people and the views will gradually increase.

this is beautiful. thank u.

The poetry of life's journey on earth!

Beautiful and heartfelt. A huge inspiration. There are people that have gone forward on their path and show us how far we are able to go on our own. Bronowski's insights into the underlying unity of science and art should be made the basis of the school's curriculum - so stupid to distinguish science and arts&humanities. As if it wasn't the product of the man's daring mind.

@szymonbaranowski8184

Жыл бұрын

not really, hard to find intelligent and sane people in humanities, and their natural diseases are infecting typically rational studies. Art just depicts truth and beauty. Right now got really corrupted by abstract virtual idiocy beyond reality we come from and belong to. The more "cultural" selfinvented the less nature the more deprived and fake humans become.

Very well made video

Where did you get the high quality audio of Ascent of Man??

Hoop in mijn leven nog mee te maken nederlands ondertieteling.

Its unavailable on my iPad, which is one reason why the view count is low.

I CAME HERE CUZ I HEARD LAWRENCE KRAUSS TALKING ABOUT HIM THIS GUY IS THE BOMB A FOREUNNER OF THE LATE CARL SAGAN

@szymonbaranowski8184

Жыл бұрын

Sagan isn't impressive and biased a lot

Where is this generation's Jacob Bronowski? Who is a modern day equivalent? One is tempted to say no one since the good Doctor left some sizable shoes to fill. How about Neil deGrasse Tyson? Or Jane Goodall? Both brilliant educators and quite good at making science popular. How about David Attenborough?

@patmoran5339

5 жыл бұрын

David Deutsch. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World. And the Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications.

@joycemichel7169

Жыл бұрын

Until several years ago, Dr. Oliver Sacks.

They are "great communicators"! Nation of priests...

JACOB BRONOWSKI - The Ascent of Man

@paulking6903

7 жыл бұрын

I also read the title.

"The Descent of Nature"

and he* is unique

Can any one tell me the song at 4:45 please and thank you peace and love all

@hamidabdollahi1435

5 жыл бұрын

james newton howard - Blood Diamond - solomon vandy

@michaelblack3985

5 жыл бұрын

@@hamidabdollahi1435 thank you kind sir

#Thanksgiving

Man is a singular creature? No. We are not.

@waynemongo

9 ай бұрын

He means we're unique.

20200626: 1.188% give a thumbs up. So do 98.8% not understand Bronowski? Of course it would be fun to transport a billion people back 50,000 years and thus create a parallel Universe. 50,000 parallel Universes. With a device to enable then to watch Bronowski one final time. During which chances are they will be eaten by something. And as the teeth of the beast sinks slowly into their gut, they will call out - now I understand. This is my dream. Not yours.

The same uniqueness have the birds' nest, the beaver's dams and lodges, the bees' ..., the worm turning into butterfly, etc. Our LORD, our Creator IS ! Yes, HE IS ! Our Creator's work is infinite magnification 😇 (When we worship ourselves and each others, we are dead already.)