Symphony of Science - A Wave of Reason

Опубликовано 22 ноября 2010, 19:41

"A Wave of Reason" is the seventh installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It is intended to promote scientific reasoning and skepticism in the face of growing amounts of pseudoscientific pursuits, such as Astrology and Homeopathy, and also to promote the scientific worldview as equally enlightening as religion. It features Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Phil Plait, and James Randi.


More science music videos can be found at symphonyofscience.com.


Enjoy!


~John
john @ symphonyofscience.com


Lyrics:
Russell:
When you are studying any matter
Or considering any philosophy
Ask yourself only: what are the facts,
And what is the truth that the facts bear out


Sagan:
Science is more than a body of knowledge
It's a way of thinking
A way of skeptically interrogating the universe


If we are not able to ask skeptical questions
To be skeptical of those in authority
Then we're up for grabs


Shermer:
In all of science we're looking for a balance
between data and theory


Harris:
You don't have to delude yourself
With Iron age fairy tales


Porco:
The same spiritual fulfillment
That people find in religion
Can be found in science
By coming to know, if you will, the mind of God


Krauss:
The real world, as it actually is,
Is not evil, it's remarkable
And the way to understand the physical world
is to use science


Dawkins:
There is a new wave of reason
Sweeping across America, Britain, Europe, Australia
South America, the Middle East and Africa
There is a new wave of reason
Where superstition had a firm hold


Plait:
Teach a man to reason
And he'll think for a lifetime


Sagan:
Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries
With questions that were once treated only
in religion and myth


The desire to be connected with the cosmos
Reflects a profound reality
But we are connected; not in the trivial ways
That Astrology promises, but in the deepest ways


Feynman:
I can't believe the special stories that have been made up
About our relationship to the universe at large
Look at what's out there; it isn't in proportion


Russell:
Never let yourself be diverted
By what you wish to believe
But look only and surely
At what are the facts


Randi:
Enjoy the fantasy, the fun, the stories
But make sure that there's a clear sharp line
Drawn on the floor
To do otherwise is to embrace madness

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