Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)

MP3: http://www.symphonyofscience.com

My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.

RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!

This song is now out on 7" vinyl through Jack White and friends at Third Man Records! Check it out here:
http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/carlsagan.aspx

And is now available on iTunes as well (Search for A Glorious Dawn)

Please, click HQ to watch in better quality.

Go here for another scientist remix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

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

Enjoy!!

-John
boswelj3@gmail.com


Lyrics:

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
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6774-1898-8986

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[DudleyScardsdale]

“A decade-long program of systematic investigation of the entire Solar System would cost as much as the accounting mistakes on a single “defense” weapons system in a single year. The scientific space program is small change compared to the errors in the Department of Defense budget.” - Carl Sagan

We need to stop killing each other for two seconds and get out into space.

[Mormegil22]

Anyone else feel offended that their upbringing and education did not contain ANY of "The Cosmos"? I am so happy I found it through Symphony of Science almost 3 years ago. Now I own the Cosmos on DVD and tell everyone I know to watch it on Netflix. This is information we knew 30 and 40 years ago that is STILL being suppressed in our culture.

"We could explore the whole galaxy if we could just stop being dicks to each other for like 5 minutes..." - xkcd

[moniker127]

Sagan had a careful way about him that preserved the important thoughts and discarded the pointless ones. We should all be so scientific.

[skating1611]

I'm apart of this generation, and I don't like any of that. Keep your mouth shut...

[skating1611]

So what? Survival of the fittest.. Bitch.

[User0Leopard]

Unfortunately many human beings still earn less than a dollar a day. I'd say that 300 million is a very reasonable number for the amount of people in the world that are rich enough to fund a project like this. 100 billion divided by 300 million is $333.

[Subhananwar94]

he liked it

[MrTdg2112]

That line of thinking leads to us just giving up. When Newton couldn't stabilize the Solar System it took 100+ years before Laplace solved it. Why? Because Newton (the smartest man ever (according to some, and defended best by Neal deGrass Tyson) told everyone the Hand of God was there. Nobody even tried until Laplace came along.

Search for Perimeter of Ignorance here on YouTube. Tyson gives numerous examples.

[MrTdg2112]

So? We are moving "Onward to the Edge" (another Symphony of Science bit featuring Neal deGrass Tyson) of human knowledge. That is what is so awesome about Science. We are always expanding that knowledge and pushing back the Perimeter of Ignorance (presentation, again by Tyson- search for it on YouTube!)

[MrTdg2112]

That is the line of thinking that leads to depression and Suicide. Is that really where we want to go as a species?

[MrTdg2112]

"How much would you pay for the Universe?" - Neal deGrass Tyson

[nicky349349]

I was speaking from a more scientific perspective, but okay.