Carl Sagan's Cosmos Episode 3 part5

continued from part 4

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[RJL738]

People need to have their families supporting them if they go into science. If only people were not so competitive so much more would be done with several minds working together, even a friction between them could make each other more intelligent. Some competition is good but only if it strengthens each other. Imagine if at least a large fraction of the human population became thorough scientists. Many people don't understand the importance of a few degreese of observation but it matters.

[SirNewt]

@RJL738 Well, I think that is what we are moving toward. Many more people now are scientists than ever before. It's an interesting cyclic relationship. Science facilitates technology which in turn provides more highly and diversely educated people, who in turn produces increasing amounts of science.

[belisariusorb]

Tycho is such a hero... Maybe not as smart as Galileo or Kepler, but anyone who gets his nose cut off in a fight is OK with me

[Thornfox]

Nah, Brahe was the pimp.

[LittleMsFantasy]

Brahe was like Charlie from Two and a Half Men and then Kepler was like his uptight brother Alan who has to move in with Charlie.

[milkywaycenter]

it wsa esay to be a matamatichian coz everybodys was so stewpid bachh than

[kurtjk01]

Brahe was the 'pimp;' Kepler was something of a fussbudget. Still, we stand on the shoulders of giants; without the Greeks, Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler (one upon the other; each in their turn), we would be tent dwellin goat herders. Fact, my brothers and sisters.

[gininginin]

@fc007

Kepler was the first to try and make a model of a part of the cosmos, and to actually verify if such model was accurate. He wasn't afraid to change his model (circular -> ellipse). Copernicus did not have accurate measurements of the planets' orbits, he guessed they were circular. Erostosthenes did calculate the Earth's radius so you have a point there. Galileo was contemporary with Kepler :)

[fc007]

@gininginin If you direguard Copernicus, Galileo, Erostosthenes, and all before him perhaps your statement would be accurate.

[gininginin]

Kepler was probably the first true scientist

[devourerofbabies]

Poor Kepler