Fractal Beauty - Part 1/4

This video is in four parts and 38 minutes long, but Youtube wouldn't allow me to upload the entire thing in one go, so here it is in parts...

Quotes:
"I have a friend who's an artist and he's sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well..."
Richard Feynman (from Horizon documentary)

"I was called by the universe. It's my life love - I've known this since I was a kid..."
Neil deGrasse Tyson (from Beyond Belief symposium)

"But it's you and I who have to know how nature works. And we are really here on a wonderful threshold of knowledge; the Ascent of Man is always teetering in the balance; there's always a sense of uncertainty as to whether, when man lifts his foot for the next step, it's really going to come down... ahead. And what is ahead of us? At last, the bringing together of all that we've learned in physics and in biology towards an understanding of, where we have come, what man is."
Jacob Bronowski (from The Ascent of Man)

"I'm a collection of organic molecules, called Carl Sagan..."
Carl Sagan (from Cosmos)

"The story I want to tell you is a remarkable story..."
Carolyn Porco (from Atheist Alliance International, 2009)

"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
William Shakespeare (from Hamlet)

"I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness..."
Jorge Luis Borges (from The Aleph)


Clips:
Walking with Monsters
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Beasts
Walking with Cavemen
Journey to the Edge of the Universe
Journey to 10000BC
Earth Investigated - How Life Began
Becoming Human
The Planet
Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Universe
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Einstein's Big Idea
The Elegant Universe
PBS NOVA - 400 Years of the Telescope
First Life
Life
Atom
Home
Light Fantastic
The Universe
The Story of Maths
The Story of God
NASA/ESA animations
LHC animations
The Cell
Everything and Nothing

Music:
múm -- Grasi Vaxin Göng
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Alpha Centauri
Jaga - Stardust Hotel

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• live
• universe
• everything
• star
• sun
• solar
• system
• evolution
• science
• galaxy
• atoms
• quarks
• electrons
• beauty
• feynman
• degrasse
• tyson
• porco
• darwin
• hitchens
• dawkins
• shakespeare
• lucretius
• bronowski
• sagan
• ptolemy
• khayyam
• gould
• attenborough

[zerothindex]

Do you have the rest of the audio clip for "I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness..."? I can't stop thinking about it!

[UppruniTegundanna]

@zerothindex It's a heavily edited excerpt from the audiobook of Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph". You can search for it on Audible.com.

[Shawnruss]

Top rated comments are those that find nothing but faults?

*sigh, youtube,

kudos on 0 thumbs down though

Beautiful piece of work, it's fun trying to figure out who was saying each quote,

and speaking of which, the quotes and video were perfect for each other.

Science needs more exposure of this kind. It is not the dull, sterile, lifeless 'thing' the majority of laymen view it as,

but a tool for discovery, understanding,

and a doorway to future possibilities and achievements we can only imagine

[UppruniTegundanna]

@Shawnruss I think the criticism is useful - it's not mean-spirited or anything. I guess that while I was putting the soundtrack together, I became so familiar with the speeches (I must have listened to them over 100 times), that I could "hear" what they were saying loud and clear, even when the music was so loud, due to familiarity with the words.

Also, I felt that I was "sacrifcing something" every time I turned the volume down on the music.

[Qualiamusic]

Great video! I love your choice of music, this is one of my favorite songs ever. But i must ask since múm is icelandic and your youtube-name is in icelandic, ertu íslenskur??

But anyways awesome video. Keep spreading wisdom and happiness. Peace

[UppruniTegundanna]

@Qualiamusic Thanks for the kind comment! I am actually English but have had a long fascination with Icelandic history, culture and language. Ég tala svolítið íslensku: ég var á fríi á Íslandi àra 2004, og vildi læra mig á tungumálinu.

[TheProphetless]

Just when I forget that I'm subscribed to your channel, you hit me with an uppercut of awesomeness. I love they way you blend music and visuals with the words of wisdom.

Thanks again.

[dreamdimensions]

Computation is greed.

It is also a child's toy.

[thisisreef]

1 person has lost their mind

[thisisreef]

What is the name of the song playing in the background????????????????

[zerothindex]

Wow. The part at 6:35 keeps blowing me away.

[AlgisKemezys]

Love the fractiles...

[gotcalves]

this is the stupidest video I ever seen

[paxson001]

Hey just a quick technical suggestion: where you have narration and music overlapping, it'll be easier to hear the narration if you find the frequency of the narration and then lower the volume of the music at the same frequencies.

[Sevlenski]

I hear Sagan, Feynman, De Grasse Tyson......................lot­s more. All my favorite cousins, uncles and aunts. We all have a very very large family.