My buddy Gordon tipped me to the song Glorious Dawn by Colorpulse featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking:
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After so many years since his amazing television show Cosmos, it strikes me how much I like the way he thinks – how he imagines vistas of space and time:
An still more glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise – a morning filled with four hundred billion suns: the rising of the Milky Way.
How he synthesizes facts about the world:
But the brain does more than just recollect: it intercompares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions … the brain has its own language for testing the structure and consistency of the world.
How he combines prediction and caution:
The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
And most of all, how beautifully he writes:
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.
When I grow up, I want to be like Carl. So check the video out on Youtube, go to Colorpulse’s site for more videos, or to Amazon for a copy of Cosmos.
-The Centaur
