Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com.

"We Are All Connected" was made from sampling Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

Check out "A Glorious Dawn" by Carl Sagan, another Symphony of Science project!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXG...

And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com

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Enjoy!

John
john@symphonyofscience.com

Lyrics:

[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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[Edward T Crump]

Check a few definitions of atheism. They do vary, but most specify that although atheists can specifically hold the belief that deities absolutely do not exist, they can also simply lack belief in deities and not claim to know with any certainty. Most atheists from an educated or scientific background are the latter, including R Dawkins the atheist "poster boy". To be fair your interpretation is how it seems to have been predominantly used in recent history but its not what the word means today.

[MelkorHimself]

The hang up is because one term deals with knowledge, whereas the other deals with belief.

Theism = belief in a personal god ---> A-theism = without belief in a personal god.

Gnosticism = having knowledge ---> A-gnosticism = without knowledge.

[josierocks18]

A friend of mine gave me his talk about death in a way to help me understand and continue on after someone loved had passed in my life. He told me, "When we die we become one with the earth, he becomes the ground you touch, the air you breathe...people never really die they are all around you. They live inside you." I never forget that..we are all truly connected.

[ShadeyBladey]

No, it's based on faith, not direct knowledge.

Actually, Gnostic in it's religious context of Gnosticism is quite different and considered heresy. The Greek root means "knowledge", but is more akin to the modern English "enlightenment". Gnosticism is to do with understanding God through hidden meanings. There are 52 Gnostic Gospels in the Apocrypha, none of which are Biblical canon.

The literal sense of "Agnostic" is correct, but "Gnostic" is not it's antithesis nor the same as faith.

[santaclaws1000]

Gnostic doesn't mean having knowledge through experience, it just means having knowledge. Most Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindi, Buddhists, people of any religion, "know" that their religion is correct, making them Gnostic. Just like some atheists "know" there is no deity or higher power, making them Gnostic.

[jdickerson23]

You are giving your attention to things that really don't matter.

[VenusianMartian]

god dammit, i would come to a science video only to find that you bastards are arguing about atheism, agnosticism, etc. in both the top comments. fucking humanity

[ShadeyBladey]

Atheist is no theism.

Agnostic is no knowledge.

Gnostic is having knowledge through experience. The Gnostic Gospels were allegedly written by people who were there.

Most theists cannot be, by definition, Gnostics, although they claim otherwise.

[ShadeyBladey]

Refreshing that you do not have the kind of faith that says a superguy with a beard who looks like us spat on some dust and created everything in 6 days 6000 years ago and then killed us all in a fit of pique except the few who got off a boat 4,400 years ago.

[TTut21]

Plato didn't give himself enough credit. Either that or he was disappointed in what he saw. ;-)

Plato's cave is a perfect example of over thinking something.

[Quintinohthree]

Duality? Dualism has been pretty well refuted for the time being. It's a nice fantasy, but not exactly a supportable belief. As best as can be perceived presently, the mind is what the brain does. Until proven otherwise, you're probably wrong.

[Ivan Boyarkin]

Amazing!