This video deserves 7 billion views.

This clip of Jacob at the concentration camp, has stayed with me my whole life. thank you

@ronunderwood5771

Жыл бұрын

I first saw it in a high school physics class in 1975. Never forgot it.

The moment he steps into the pond is phenomenal. I can't get anyone I know to watch even 1 minute of this with me. Maybe it is hopeless.

@WildSuns42

5 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean. But I watched it and felt the same as you.

@hthesmith7915

4 жыл бұрын

maybe you need new friends......

@m.campos254

3 жыл бұрын

I can't get my wife to watch even 30 seconds of it.

@betiona1507

3 жыл бұрын

@@m.campos254 Why?

@charlottematthews6268

3 жыл бұрын

you and I are watching. There is still hope

His passionate prayer (is it to be catagorized in any other way?) at the end, standing in the pond at Auschwitz, goes straight to the heart. More relevant than ever.

This is pretty much the essence of the way of science and intellectual tradition I follow. Sadly, the self reflection and humanism seem to have almost vanished in modern universities.

I can remember watching this on first broadcast ,I have never forgotten it, public service television at its VERY best.

I wonder what Jacob Bronowski would have made of today's world if he was still alive. Seems to me that we indeed have become a list on numbers.

"knowledge is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, above all of what we are as ethical creatures" I am in lexicon heaven! I don't think this can be said any more eloquently.

I return to watch this every year. JB is my virtual mentor.

I recall watching his series when it first aired. Then as now I’m moved to goose bumps. The closing speech (5:40) when he walked into the water, left a deep and profound mark on me. And seeing it again is just as powerful. The Ascent of Man is must see.

@mattclaus7690

4 жыл бұрын

If that scene doesn't move you, you aren't entirely human.

@claudiaxander

10 ай бұрын

i too Feel it forever altered me on the deepest level when i saw it as a child.

@larryscott3982

10 ай бұрын

@@claudiaxander Nice to see a 3 yr old comment still gets read

@claudiaxander

10 ай бұрын

@@larryscott3982 good n true always will be.

@larryscott3982

10 ай бұрын

@@claudiaxander The original was hours long. And in aggregate, very moving

A truly prophetic voice for our age .....

Its now 2021 and I would suggest anyone interested in science to watch that whole series "The ascend of man!". It is an old masterpiece and will give you a feeling for a part of science, that seems to get forgotten more and more. Its tone very well captures the universal and contemplative nature of science, that needs time for clear and slow thinking. Sadly you can either follow the way of the scientists like Bronowski or the modern "way" of optimizing performance metrics. They seem to be inherently incompatible.

JB remains my virtual mentor. I have re read The Ascent of Man several times since 1975. Science and Human Values another great read. I'm glad I did not discover JB in his youth. The Ascent of JB showed the arrogance of youth, the JB of his later life showed a beautiful learned mature mind.

I had a chance to meet his wife, during the seventies in La Jolla, CA and I didn't want to take it because I didn't want to meet, someone close to him, I wanted to meet him. Of course he was dead then, but he was,, is and always will be, to me, one of the greatest minds that ever lived. So eloquent, mystical and paternal. Great job.

This is so tragic and inspirational at the same time. I wish everyone would watch with open eyes, open minds and, above all, open hearts.

As a kid I remember walking into the living room. The TV was on and some “”old guy” was in a place I now know to be Machu Picchu talking about the absence of arches in the architecture. So what? It was Dr Jacob Bronowski and it changed my life.

What a powerful speaker

@Errorelimination

3 жыл бұрын

He inspired one of the most powerful book ever - The Beginning Of Infinity by David Deutsch

Inspirational, poignant and deeply moving. This should be compulsory viewing for everyone, especially those who would aspire to lead us. Dr Bronowski has more integrity, intellect and humility than the entire current generation of politicians in Europe and North America combined. I am inspired and humbled by his words when he stands in the pond in Auschwitz.

What a command of the English language, a scientific poet!

The Ascent of Man ... best documentary of all time .

The work this great man committed himself to on this series killed him. Bronowski died in 1974 of a heart attack in East Hampton, New York only one year after The Ascent of Man was first televised. If I could, I would hug him and thank him as well as my high school teacher who showed us this entire series in high school back in 1984. Thank you both so.

So emotionally baleful that I had to watch it twice. Good job on the editing & music. The ending scene is truly haunting, as it is heartrending. Truly tragic, are the ramifications of our actions.

The scientific mind, once achieved, will see and behave very differently to the world around it. It will question and see through the fault of basic fundamentalism. Regardless if the idea is sacred or age old tradition. Wrong will always show itself, and nothing but a scientific mind can spot it in any situation, and at any time.

so much power in the one-shot scene at the end. A fine proof that words can sometimes express more than for what many of us would love the sáme ability to understand... my feet feel cold

JB is my virtual mentor. I read the Ascent of man every few years along with Science and Human Values. Sadly we are not yet a scientific society. We still have a huge population of irrational people, but they gladly accept everything science brings them while praising sky gods. If I am ever asked to give a talk at a church I will use JB writings as my guide. Evolution is very slow, I hope the next iteration of christianity is more rational for the sake of our children. Indoctrinating children with fables and dogma as truth stunts their education. I would like to start scientific education in the first grade.

Yes! We have to touch people ‼️

,this intellectual man ,was a great thinker,a very rational man... this is a very poignant moment when Jacob steps into the pond and condemns dogma and ignorance... what a fantastic communicator of quite complex issues

He just knows the right words to say! pretty powerful stuff

My kind of man......Science has a future...........in dogma there is no future.........

Wow,just wow, i have goose bumps now...i watched a parky interview with him and what an astute man...

Very powerful message, amazing video

Moved to tears each time I see that grasping the mud, touching molecules of history ancestors

Thank you.

There has always been a fight between good and evil. If evil had logic they would be easy to convert. But evil rarely has logic, and must be destroyed to save mankind.

Jacob god bless your soul you said it we are death to humans suffering, outstanding talk thank you , we are more deaf today

A very nice piece of humanity....

These wise words should be passed on to world leaders, to those who today are destroying such ideas, destroying

His book Science and Human Values should be the cornerstone of this effort to explain to the layman the philosophy of science. Science man: justice is part of his biological makeup along with a creative mind, the habit of truth and a sense of human dignity. Democracy of intellect is treasured as opposed to the aristocracy of dogma found in religion and politics where indoctrination replaces truth seeking. Composite from Bronowski's Science and Human Values. JB spent his life apologizing for the A bomb. Timothy Sandefur just published The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski. After the Ascent of Man in 1975 JB became my virtual mentor. Most laymen have no idea that science has a philosophy. JB equated poetry and art with the discovery in nature of a likeness equal to that in science.

We can do better my brothers and sisters 🙏🏽🙏🏽. Let’s started to teach our kids earlier before the system get them.💪🏾💪🏾🇭🇹

Just wonderful....

Love!

Yes! 📗📘📕💚💙❤️🌲🌍🍎

beautiful brilliant man

Albert Schweitzer another brilliant polymath. He told us he needed no dogma, & that he believed that action in life itself is religion. "Example is NOT the main thing in influencing others, it is the ONLY THING." And they say it wasn't Einstein, but someone, perhaps Schweitzer or Bronowski said "if there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. As the Buddha exhorted ....Earn your livelihood in a way that brings HURT or DANGER to NO LIVING THING!!!

What a wonderful man some just see things as they really are not some twisted reality

"It is not the tragedy of science but the tragedy of mankind." Excellent insight into the notion which seeks to blame God for mankind's actions.

Bronowski died in 1974. The Shuttle disaster was 1986. Therefore his voice in this video was an audio recording or lifted from an original video and added to this video's vision.

The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski (Book) coming out in May 2019 by Timothy Sandefur. I have placed my order.

I love t;his ... A testament to what hatred can do. I wish tho'' that Dr Brownowski wouldn't quote Cromwell who was not a very nice guy !

he is a huge thinker

beautiful and shocking.

Copycartels blocking this inspiration. So very humane BBC.. (Sarcasm) please re upload, looking fwd

If only Americans and Israelis had of mind which could truly understand this video.

@christophergoodman9055

3 жыл бұрын

Unlike the European nations as well as others around the world America has not seen total destruction and war on its land. We may never fully grasp what it feels like to hear air raid sirens in the night. We may never feel the deep rooted sorrow that loosing a whole generation of people feels like. That's why the vast majority of Americans grasp at simple things to fight about. Remember one thing we Americans are not from America we came here and murdered a whole race to take this land . The youth can not see these scars and the adults ignore them. Every race that there is lives here we are not all of the same mind set . The average person doesn't think of murder and conquest so why do we allow governments to steer us in that direction. Every human being, living thing , has the same value and should be treated as so. A smile is a beautiful thing no matter who's doing the smiling... well as long as it's a smile in good faith.

The clamor for stacks of paper has taught us much about the nature of addiction.

@therealKINDLE

Жыл бұрын

The clamour is compulsory. If you do not comply, expect a slow death on the streets. I have witnessed this myself and it broke me to see a man kill himself because he had no rights to life. We must change the system to something scientific. Science aims to improve. Nothing more. Change the system, and we change human behavior. [See "Story of Change" by Jacque Fresco on this very channel]

This man is more than a Rabbi or a priest This man is a Saint

6:00 "When people believe they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave." It's staggering to watch this and then look at what's been done before it and since to Palestinians/Arabs in the Near East, by you-know-who.

This is a TRUTH! I wonder why some People deny this? I wonder...? #truth @crazysocks4science

i blame, yes i blame, i blame the french higher criticism which many lecturers made themselves these little destructive gods in hell. i understand when God say, i want to spew you... i get it and feel it.. there are no words to define but the action of spewing

When scientists speak on matters pertaining to their specialties they are almost forced to stick to reason, as science is simply a perpetual demand that one be reasonable. But when they venture outside their specialties they are no more insightful than the next guy you meet at the bus stop. There is no science of history or literature, and probably never will be. Oppenheimer, pressed by colleagues as to the moral implications of the Manhattan Project, then in the final stages of preparing the world's first atomic bombs, replied that he was "without special competence on the moral question." In other words, science told him nothing about the morality of what he was doing, and by implication he thought the matter was a specialized task for some other group to handle, a Department of Extermination Affairs perhaps. This kind of moral imbecility is common in the natural sciences. It's almost an occupational hazard. Why haven't scientists organized themselves into a union to refuse to work on the development of new weapons systems? Doesn't occur to them.

JB is my virtual mentor. Jordan Peterson is currently the rage, and he is a good man, however he clings to a god he will not define. Bronowski clings to scientific evolution as mankind always moving forward. He is talking about educated man who is a specialist that works in a scientific society and understands what nature can do. Sadly irrational man is the majority, that,s who JBP is talking to.

@falcodarkzz

4 жыл бұрын

Peterson is in many ways what Bronowski speaks against here I think. I've heard Peterson speaking completely offhand on topics he has no idea about, he mentioned in one interview that "most of the mass in the milky way is in very large stars", which he compared to the wealth divide in capitalism...I can tell you as an astrophysics major, he's completely wrong. Not the first time I've seen him do that either.

@betiona1507

3 жыл бұрын

Peterson is an idiot...... and don't take anyone as a mentor, that's unscientific.

@stanleycates1972

3 жыл бұрын

@@betiona1507 ha ha JB is a great example to follow . when he was young, he was a jerk sometimes, like all young

@betiona1507

3 жыл бұрын

@@stanleycates1972 Oh yes, that is normal, if you are young and you still need a superficial impulse, yeah...but if you are looking for deeper and real knowledge, JP is not valid.

JB recordings for president 2024

Clearly, the great man had no knowledge of Zen Buddhism

@Atanu

Жыл бұрын

@Celestial Teapot The moment I came across that bit in Bronowski's speech about Zen Buddhism, I stopped the video and checked the comments. You beat me to it -- he did not know anything about Zen. I admire and respect his scholarship immensely. But even the most knowledgeable person cannot know everything. I will give him a pass on this one considering that he was a very wise and good person.

I don't think six million people were murdered in the pursuit of absolute knowledge, but ok.

@Leo-xj8hw

6 жыл бұрын

Absolute knowledge is unquestioned dogma.

This guy talks in riddles. Very deceptive. The only person that ever made sense of everything was Jacque Fresco.

@betiona1507

3 жыл бұрын

I agree!! Fresco is much better.

This is so tragic and inspirational at the same time. I wish everyone would watch with open eyes, open minds and, above all, open hearts.