Symphony of Science – The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by admin
mp3: http://symphonyofscience.com
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.
Special thanks are due to The Sagan Appreciation Society:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SaganAppreciationSoc
and Connie Barlow:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ghostsofevolution
for their huge help in finding source materials. Check out their Youtube pages! Thanks also to all of you who suggested footage that I have not mentioned, I really appreciate it.
Check out http://symphonyofscience.com for more science music videos!
And my other website for more original electronic music: http://www.colorpulsemusic.com
Now available in HD for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!
John
john@symphonyofscience.com
Lyrics:
[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
(Refrain)
Duration : 0:3:7
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February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
stephen hawkings …
stephen hawkings singing some how reminds me of this dexter’s laboratory’s series showing a parody of charlie and the chocolate factory
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
@ZebrasFirst Non …
@ZebrasFirst Non sequitour and fallacy of composition. Enjoy the video.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
this is soo cool …
this is soo cool very well done !…
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
ioanaantal thank …
ioanaantal thank you for your refreshing comment. i have nothing against “science”, but i am against religious atheism. why instead using alternative medicie/homeothrapy – they use synthetic drugs for mere cold, flue or virus? is this not against natural selection/evolution? i mean – most of them will get cured from the virus, but their immune system and DNA will be impure. baby males in the world with such parents are born with smaller sexual organs and impotent lol ;P females look like men :/
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
sience brought us …
sience brought us here, we are more than 6 billion and different spieces of animals dissapeard… sience is for a better life… but soon there will be no life, what is our goal anyways? to make everything easier, have machines do everything… there will be no need for human resources, but there will be lots of people without a job
we have the right for a better life, but the other creatures on this eartth do not even have the right to live?
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
explane psychic …
explane psychic experience, like dreaming the future. most people have had some kind of psychic experience.
Edgar Cayce did it everyday ! it was witnessed and documented, not coincidence. check out the A. R. E.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Always ugly and …
Always ugly and people who got bullied who goes scientists
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
I’m all for science …
I’m all for science, but this is cringeworthy.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
awesome!!!
awesome!!!
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
@garethac81 – You …
@garethac81 – You completely missed my point. If you read what I wrote or looked at who I was responding to you’d realise Im not in the slightest bit religious. Im completely for the advancement of knowledge using the scientific method.
@simonmcfee – My sentiments exactly. I mean there are tribes out there who dont have the word of christ to work with but have refrained from killinging each other.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
those fools r …
those fools r searching the origins of world and cant think that God created. How do they dynie our God who loves us all so much. They r blinded, they cant see the truth that everything created by God.
God bless America!!!
(this is just some bullshit talking from christians, iam atheist, just made a comedy hehehe)
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
(part 2):try to …
(part 2):try to debunk my diagnosis for you “Angry men syndrome”. first google it and then compare it with your behavior:
1. trying proving that your world-view is always true with any mean: even scandals. *check*
2. Chavinistic mind-set (ban for things which you don’t like to see or read): induced from your entire left-brain thinking *check*
3. Overrational to the point of “irrationality” (unnatural). such high-intelligence with added over-rationality create COWARDS and Impotent males =^.^=
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
homeoptahy is part …
homeoptahy is part from alternative medicine. i am not homeopath, neither you. i am not expert in string theory, neither you… “blisfull ignorance” is for people as you, which want their opinion to be Always true. i will stop discussion with you, this video is only for religious atheists for boosting fake egos. you think only with your left-side of the brain, completelly ignoring: art, inuition etc. you will remain foverer “Angry Men”. you are suffering from that mental illness.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Show where it was …
Show where it was proven that god did it.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
In a perfect world …
In a perfect world it would be as you say. (not the corporations the first bit).
The celebration of science is a defence against the overt and covert assaults on science and scientific methodology by religious fringe groups and and other quacks.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Do you know what …
Do you know what they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work?
Medicine.
Homoeopathy is bunkum. There are no medical research papers showing that they work. No explanation of how they would work if they did.
Your attempts to use the Theory of Evolution to support your case just falls into line with your attempts to draft String theory to support supernatural nonsense. You don’t understand them and seem quite comfortable in your blissful ignorance.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Wow, that was …
Wow, that was really good. Great quotes and very nicely mixed. 5 stars from me.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
their article was …
their article was about human time travel, but nevermind. homeopathy NEED to be used as norm and synthetic drugs to become option only for really ill people: both mnetal and physical. you are working against evolution, because natural selection will improve your immune system and body resistance. your arrogance is simply hilarious… you are coward as every modern skeptic. Homeopathic “drugs” are actually the only way, your own body to continue “natural selection” process >.>
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
By arguing you are …
By arguing you are showing that you don’t even understand basic human behavior. Why would anyone take you seriously?
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
You mention some ” …
You mention some “research” that has nothing to do with the supernatural or homoeopathy.
You can get something that looks like time travel on the quantum level. It might even be real time travel but it is unlikely to work for anything bigger than sub atomic particles.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
you don’t get it… …
here another example: so now i see that you are enviromentalist (which is soo hard for me too believe… since when consrevtives as you, infiltrated us?): try proving to penn and teller that GW is real and is happening. the same phrase “Instead you console your self by believing that he wouldn’t believe you any way. It is just a cop out. ” can be used against you.
you don’t get it… no matter what are the real results, you will simply ignore it
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Exactly, you claim …
Exactly, you claim to have the ability but refuse to be properly tested.
Instead you console your self by believing that he wouldn’t believe you any way. It is just a cop out.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Climate scientists. …
Climate scientists. You know, the people who actually research and collect the data.
I’m not interested in your bashing of Randi.
His money is safe because none of the potential applicants will allow for independent scientific verification. Randi doesn’t reject them, they balk at the testing.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
i can’t enjoy …
i can’t enjoy boring videos as this… sorry. i just typed yesterday my honest opinion for religious atheism, and this retard (tenesious… some weird username as that) want from me “discussion”… i understand that this video is only for the eyes of religious atheists/materialist apologetics.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:17 am
What a wonderful …
What a wonderful video….but if you scroll down you will see sickening comments. It’s such a contradiction.