Carl Sagan - The Pioneers of Science 2/3

Carl Sagan in "Cosmos" is talking about the discoveries of Democritus and Pythagoras and how the ancient Greek ideas ispired modern science.

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[baxill23]

Carl was an amazing man, born about a thousand years before his time..

[Myndir]

It's amazing how much about the world that the Greeks were able to discover, despite the fact that they were almost always some of the first investigators into any given field. They had no store of background knowledge to consult and had to use their own observations and reasoning to come to new conclusions in what were very new sciences.

It just goes to show how much of science is about keeping one's eyes open and how centuries of science were frustrated by the closing of these eyes.

[UseAsDirected100]

@fliegeroh I think you make an excellent point. In college I took two science, technology, and society (STS) and sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) courses and much of the course was spent overturning such naive claims as Sagan and others say. Of course Sagan to a large extent is right, but, it is not so cut-and-dry as we would like to think. Thanks.

[aces11666]

I wish he was my dad

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

do they still show this in school

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@Myndir indeed

[JackVIIVIIVII]

Anyone know the song from the beginning of this video? (0:00 up to about 1:30)

[fliegeroh]

I think it's wrong for Sagan to say, for example, that "Pythagoras was the first person to recognize that the world was round". These great men of science like Pythagoras did not operate in a vacuum, alone on an island thinking great thoughts all by themselves. No, rather, they needed to talk and argue with other men and compare ideas. Science is a process, not a bunch of individuals. Nobody comes up with great ideas all on their own. Even Einstein had help.

[monsta123x]

damn this is good documentary

[alexpetro27]

Rip Carl Sagan. A great American.

[the0fart0machine]

For such a great scientist, it must of hurt Sagan to be upstaged by Immanuel Velikovsky. This great man made some brilliant predictions that Sagan could only of dream't about!

[mohfoz77]

EXCELLENT.

CARL SAGAN is an inspiration.