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This YouTube channel contains the best collection of material, all organized and divided amongst my subscriptions menu, favorites and playlist menus, and videos menu. In spite of the primary focus of this channel being directed towards bestowing education, there are still many different kinds of other material including: the dangers of religion and nationalism, and global warming and geological pollution; the importance of secular policy and rational investigation, and using science and philosophy positively.
The paradigms of education and health display evidently at least in my opinion, the optimistic path for our species to find the most success, in its stay here on earth.
The paradigms of education and health display evidently at least in my opinion, the optimistic path for our species to find the most success, in its stay here on earth.
About Me:
~ "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." ~
-- Carl Sagan
~ "We were hunters and foragers, the frontier was everywhere. We were bounded only by the Earth, and the ocean, and the sky. Our terraqueous globe is the madhouse of those hundred, thousand, millions of worlds. We who can not even put our own planetary home in order, riven with rivalries and hatreds, are we to venture out into space?
By the time we're ready to settle to even the nearest other planetary systems we will have changed. The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us, necessity will have changes us. We're an adaptable species; it will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, farseeing, capable and prudent.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders undreamt of in our time will we have wrought in another generation, and another? How far will our nomadic species have wondered by the end of the next century, and the next millennium?
Our remote descendents safely arrayed through the many solar systems and beyond will be unified -- by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that whatever other life may be the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way." ~
-- Carl Sagan
~ "The true size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty." ~
-- Carl Sagan
"Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"Fanatic ethnic, and religious, and national identifications are difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent, fading to become an inconspicuous point of light, against the bastion and citadel of the stars."
-- Carl Sagan
Hometown:
Scottsdale, AZ
Country:
United States
Occupation:
I am currently studying quantum physics and general relativities -- didn't take me long to get here :D. Thanks Salman Khan, you changed my life.
Interests:
Not really a hobby, but more of a lifestyle. But still, I have made it my goal to first, learn everything on the Kahn Academy YouTube channel, and then maybe later learn about other topics in different YouTube channels. The first thing that I want to do after I learn all of the information from Kahn Academy, is to fish out the best videos and put them in my favorites menu. I think it be a great way to give tons of people access to some of the best videos available. Secondly, sometime down the road I want to do the same thing that Sal is doing with his Kahn Academy. He motivates me everyday. I feel as though I have a true purpose in my life that must be fulfilled. There are just too many kids now a day that have no value for education, and there are just too many unintelligent people in this world. I believe it is just flat out stopping our species from becoming a Type 1 Civilization. My goal really in life is to obtain our current understandings in intelligence, and really pass on that knowledge to the rest of the world. I feel like this is just something far too important to simply not do. Creating a foundation of education is what I believe, will ultimately save our species from self-destruction. Thanks for reading
Movies:
Watchmen; Gladiator
Music:
Philip Glass
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I hope you reach your goals - I think you will
Cheers from South Australia
thanks for the add. I don't know why you chose to add me but cool :)
Btw, I saw your response to DarthM4lak on the Topic of God. I share with you that the matter is far simpler than the process it has evolved through. Anyhow, that could be something we can talk about sometime if you'd like to understand it - not saying I have all the answers but I'm sure we can learn from one another's experiences etc.
Most importantly you share a deep desire for science and knowledge beyond the use of an iphone or xbox360 or a TMZ spread on J-lo. The social stuff has its place but I can appreciate our mutual interest in a world beyond those things. I guess we can share in this as well!
Again, thanks for the add! Keep learning and God Bless you my friend!