Carl Sagan on the great library of Alexandria part 1

The great library of Alexandria part 1

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[holdsund4y]

A great loss for humanity...

[jackfin]

yep! As Christopher Hitchens say. God is not great and "religion poisons everything"

religion has held back the human race for century's

[cobone2]

It was a cold day in the world of knowledge when Carl left this earth...He will be missed

[bryanttillman]

What the god-monkeys did to us in alexandria 415ad ...is the difference between watching the starship enterprise on TV, and riding in it in real life. The Abrahamic Faiths have cost us the future. We owe them what Nero tried to do.

[benthejrporter]

Whatever was in that library must have been dangerous knowledge that could undermine the authority of the church and state!

[csnowutube]

@holdsund4y And yet, he "lives on" in his books and these videos. I never met him but have been inspired by him so many times.

A great gain for humanity.

[100waterloo]

@SirPaFla Excuse me but I can read. And the people given credit for the creation of pretty much everything are Greek. If you can name people from that era, that aren't Greek and are given credit for establishing an intellectual discipline, have at it. -That fact that all the Nile valley's knowledge was collected and translated aided the illusion of genius.- I am interested in that list of names though.

[SirPaFla]

@100waterloo No they weren't all greek. Some of them which worked in Alexandria were belived not to be greek but theres no enscription that specifically says what nationality some of the scientists were. Most of them were greek but others were from all over the world. The fact that all the worlds knowledge was in one place for the first time aided genius.

[100waterloo]

@SirPaFla that statement contradicts itself and it doesn't make sense anyway. It's the first time I ever heard that argument. They were Greek and Greece is known as the cradle of western civilization. And if they were anything but Ancient Egyptian and took credit for the discovery of the Egyptians work they are plagiarists. I don't see the problem with being truthful at this point in time.

[SirPaFla]

@100waterloo And I'm saying that the greek scientists were not all greek. So they didn't plagerise.

[pixusbubblejet]

Let's also not forget the Muslim destruction of the Nalanda Central Library & University Complex in India. It was the oldest and largest actual university in the ancient world. Its library was in three 9-story buildings, it had dormitories and classrooms for thousands of students and hundreds of teachers. Its tuition was free. The Muslim fanatics beheaded all the students and professors, and burned all the books. It took them three months to wipe out Nalanda University.

[100waterloo]

@SirPaFla I don't quite understand you. Maybe "what" was because the Greek empire ...? My point is the Greeks are plagiarists and have stolen credit for being the foundation of civilization. The Greeks were not dumb the accumulated and added to knowledge from the Nile valley, Mesopotamia, etc. But they are falsely named the creators of the sciences and the arts. Medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, architecture, etc. were all practices they LEARNED from Egypt.