RICHARD DAWKINS - Appetite for Wonder
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0:10 - 0:15Einstein was openly ruled by an aesthetic scientific muse:
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0:17 - 0:21"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
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0:21 - 0:25It is the source of all true art and science", he said.
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0:35 - 0:39There is mystery in the universe, beguiling mystery,
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0:39 - 0:44but it isn't capricious, whimsical, frivolous in its changeability.
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0:44 - 0:46The universe is an orderly place
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0:46 - 0:53and, at a deep level, regions of it behave like other regions, times behave like other times.
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0:54 - 0:56There is mystery but not magic,
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0:56 - 1:04strangeness beyond the wildest imagining, but no spells or witchery, no arbitrary miracles.
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1:04 - 1:10The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement.
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1:10 - 1:13I think that the appetite for mystery
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1:13 - 1:18the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered.
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1:18 - 1:22It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science,
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1:22 - 1:27and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.
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1:28 - 1:33Perhaps it is this appetite that underlies the ratings success of the paranormalists.
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1:34 - 1:39It's often said that people 'need' something more in their lives than just the material world.
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1:39 - 1:41There is a gap that must be filled.
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1:41 - 1:44People need to feel a sense of purpose.
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1:46 - 1:51Well, not a BAD purpose would be to find out what is already here, in the material world,
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1:51 - 1:54before concluding that you need something more.
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1:54 - 1:56How much more do you want?
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1:56 - 1:58Just study what is,
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1:58 - 2:04and you'll find that it already is far more uplifting than anything you could imagine needing.
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3:25 - 3:27You don't have to be a scientist
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3:27 - 3:29-- you don't have to play the bunsen burner --
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3:29 - 3:38in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap.
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3:39 - 3:44Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.
- Title:
- RICHARD DAWKINS - Appetite for Wonder
- Description:
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"By all means let's be openminded, but not so openminded that our brains drop out." Richard Dawkins
CREDITS
MUSIC: Malfoy's Mission - Nicolas Hooper & Across The Stars - John Williams
NARRATION: Richard Dawkins - Science, Delusion and the Apettite for WonderNature in a time lapse - https://vimeo.com/64942796
James Blake Overgrown - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlaRjP8pg0Q
Polar Spirits - https://vimeo.com/64122803
BBC Galápagos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_(TV_series)
The Tree Of Life - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_(film)
BBC How Small is The Universe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Horizon_episodes
Chronos - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088919/
Overview - overviewthemovie.com/
IMAX Mission to Mir - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Mir_(film)
IMAX The Dream Is Alive - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089050/
BBC Life - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(BB...)
BBC Earth Flight - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthflight
Baraka - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(...)
Oceans - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceans_(film)
Wonders Of Life - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_Life_(TV_series)
Home - http://www.homethemovie.org/
BBC South Pacific - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pa...)All copyrighted materials contained herein belong to their respective copyright holders, I do not claim ownership over any of these materials.
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 04:14
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