[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 number one Has an elaborate logical underpinning The brain has its own language For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking] For thousands of years People have wondered about the universe Did it stretch out forever Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes From dark matter to a possible big crunch Our image of the universe today Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan] How lucky we are to live in this time The first moment in human history When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean Recently we've waded a little way out And the water seems inviting
[deGrasse Tyson] We are all connected; To each other, biologically To the earth, chemically To the rest of the universe atomically
[Feynman] I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's She's never going to let us relax
[Sagan] We live in an in-between universe Where things change all right But according to patterns, rules, Or as we call them, laws of nature
[Nye] I'm this guy standing on a planet Really I'm just a speck Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck To think about all of this To think about the vast emptiness of space There's billions and billions of stars Billions and billions of specks
[Sagan] The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it But the way those atoms are put together The cosmos is also within us We're made of star stuff We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
Across the sea of space The stars are other suns We have traveled this way before And there is much to be learned
I find it elevating and exhilarating To discover that we live in a universe Which permits the evolution of molecular machines As intricate and subtle as we
[deGrasse Tyson] I know that the molecules in my body are traceable To phenomena in the cosmos That makes me want to grab people in the street And say, have you heard this??
(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)
[Feynman] There's this tremendous mess Of waves all over in space Which is the light bouncing around the room And going from one thing to the other
And it's all really there But you gotta stop and think about it About the complexity to really get the pleasure And it's all really there The inconceivable nature of nature
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"Our Place in the Cosmos", the third video from the Symphony of Science, was crafted using samples from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, Richard Dawkins' Genius of Charles Darwin series, Dawkins' TED Talk, Stephen Hawking's Universe series, Michio Kaku's interview on Physics and aliens, plus added visuals from Baraka, Koyaanisqatsi, History Channel's Universe series, and IMAX Cosmic Voyage. The themes present in this song are intended to explore our understanding of our origins within the universe, and to challenge the commonplace notion that humans have a superior or privleged position, both on our home planet and in the universe itself.
[Narrator] With every century Our eyes on the universe have been opened anew We are witness To the very brink of time and space
[Robert Jastrow] We must ask ourselves We who are so proud of our accomplishments What is our place in the cosmic perspective of life?
[Carl Sagan] The exploration of the cosmos Is a voyage of self discovery As long as there have been humans We have searched for our place in the cosmos
[Richard Dawkins] Are there things about the universe That will be forever beyond our grasp? Are there things about the universe that are Ungraspable?
[Sagan] One of the great revelations of space exploration Is the image of the earth, finite and lonely Bearing the entire human species Through the oceans of space and time
[Dawkins] Matter flows from place to place And momentarily comes together to be you Some people find that thought disturbing I find the reality thrilling
[Sagan] As the ancient mythmakers knew We're children equally of the earth and the sky In our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated Dangerous evolutionary baggage
We've also acquired compassion for others, Love for our children, And a great soaring passionate intelligence The clear tools for our continued survival
[Michio Kaku] We could be in the middle Of an inter-galactic conversation And we wouldn't even know
[Sagan] We've begun at last To wonder about our origins Star stuff contemplating the stars Tracing that long path
Our obligation to survive and flourish Is owed not just to ourselves But also to that cosmos Ancient and vast, from which we spring
"The Unbroken Thread" is the fourth video in the Symphony of Science series, and it features David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, and Carl Sagan. The clips used in this installment come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, David Attenborough's Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, The Life of Mammals, The Living Planet, BBC Life, XVIVO Scientific Animations, IMAX Cosmic Voyage, Jane Goodall's TED Talk, and a clever Guiness Commercial. The themes present in The Unbroken Thread attempt to explore the wild diversity of life on our planet, the intricacy and origin of its mechanisms, and its close relation to all other life forms.
[David Attenborough] All life is related And it enables us to construct with confidence The complex tree that represents the history of life
Our planet, the Earth, is as far as we know Unique in the universe; it contains life Here plants and animals proliferate in such numbers That we still have not even named all the different species
Darwin's great insight revolutionized the way in which we see the world We now understand why there are so many different species
[Carl Sagan] Every cell is a triumph of natural selection And we're made of trillions of cells (Within us is a little universe) Those are some of the things that molecules do Given four billions years of evolution (We are, each of us, a multitude)
Now how did the molecules of life arise?
[Attenborough] It began in the sea Some 3 thousand million years ago Complex chemical molecules began to clump together
These were the "seeds" From which the tree of life developed They were able to split, replicating themselves As bacteria do
[Sagan] The secrets of evolution Are time and death There's an unbroken thread that stretches From those first cells to us
(refrain)
[Jane Goodall] There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom It's a very wuzzie line
It's a very wuzzie line, and it's getting wuzzier All the time
We find animals doing things that we, In our arrogance, Used to think was "just human"
(refrain)
[Attenborough] Its continued survival now rests in our hands
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The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers, promoting science through words of wisdom.
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[Michael Shermer] Science is the best tool ever devised For understanding how the world works
[Jacob Bronowski] Science is a very human form of knowledge We are always at the brink of the known
[Carl Sagan] Science is a collaborative enterprise Spanning the generations We remember those who prepared the way Seeing for them also
[Neil deGrasse Tyson] If you're scientifically literate, The world looks very different to you And that understanding empowers you
Refrain: [Richard Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world Science is the poetry of reality
[Sagan] We can do science And with it, we can improve our lives
[Jill Tarter] The story of humans is the story of ideas That shine light into dark corners
[Lawrence Krauss] Scientists love mysteries They love not knowing
[Richard Feynman] I don't feel frightened by not knowing things I think it's much more interesting
[Brian Greene] There's a larger universal reality of which we are all apart
[Stephen Hawking] The further we probe into the universe The more remarkable are the discoveries we make
[Carolyn Porco] The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights
(Refrain)
[Greene] From our lonely point in the cosmos We have through the power of thought Been able to peer back to a brief moment After the beginning of the universe
[PZ Myers] I think that science changes the way your mind works To think a little more deeply about things
[Dawkins] Science replaces private predjudice With publicly verifiable evidence
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