Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected' (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

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  • MP3 available at www.symphonyofscience.com.
    "We Are All Connected" was made from sampling Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.
    Check out "A Glorious Dawn" by Carl Sagan, another Symphony of Science project!
    • Carl Sagan - 'A Glorio...
    And my website for more original music:
    www.colorpulsemusic.com
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    Enjoy!
    John
    john@symphonyofscience.com
    Lyrics:
    [deGrasse Tyson]
    We are all connected;
    To each other, biologically
    To the earth, chemically
    To the rest of the universe atomically
    [Feynman]
    I think nature's imagination
    Is so much greater than man's
    She's never going to let us relax
    [Sagan]
    We live in an in-between universe
    Where things change all right
    But according to patterns, rules,
    Or as we call them, laws of nature
    [Nye]
    I'm this guy standing on a planet
    Really I'm just a speck
    Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
    To think about all of this
    To think about the vast emptiness of space
    There's billions and billions of stars
    Billions and billions of specks
    [Sagan]
    The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
    But the way those atoms are put together
    The cosmos is also within us
    We're made of star stuff
    We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
    Across the sea of space
    The stars are other suns
    We have traveled this way before
    And there is much to be learned
    I find it elevating and exhilarating
    To discover that we live in a universe
    Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
    As intricate and subtle as we
    [deGrasse Tyson]
    I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
    To phenomena in the cosmos
    That makes me want to grab people in the street
    And say, have you heard this??
    (Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)
    [Feynman]
    There's this tremendous mess
    Of waves all over in space
    Which is the light bouncing around the room
    And going from one thing to the other
    And it's all really there
    But you gotta stop and think about it
    About the complexity to really get the pleasure
    And it's all really there
    The inconceivable nature of nature
    Help us caption & translate this video!
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  • @sootyshearwater3631
    @sootyshearwater3631 Před 3 měsíci +94

    My daughter first showed me this. She loved it and I loved it. We listened to it often. She would say Carl Sagan was her real dad (her dad decided not to be a dad). Then when she was diagnosed with cancer, we listened to it in the hospice and it was somehow comforting. Then after she died, we listened to it with her one last time. I hope she finds Carl in those billions and billions of stars.

    • @davidwilliamfox9697
      @davidwilliamfox9697 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Oh my! Thank you SO much. That's SO beautiful. I look forward to when all of us meet together. That will be a party!

    • @samiranmanna3951
      @samiranmanna3951 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yeah she'll surely have a great time with Sagan

    • @safedrivingisforlosers
      @safedrivingisforlosers Před 2 měsíci +1

      Know comfort in that she began as star stuff and just went back home.
      👍

    • @benconway3103
      @benconway3103 Před 2 měsíci

      That’s Awesome your Daughter dropped a Gem 💎 from a Gem ..Bless Her Heart in Heaven 🌅🌄🌅💙🙏😇😇😇

    • @keithwienersz7705
      @keithwienersz7705 Před měsícem +1

      God bless you & your family , Sir
      Deepest condolences

  • @chrisreid986
    @chrisreid986 Před 8 lety +754

    "The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." It says so much, in so little.

    • @ashit.5060
      @ashit.5060 Před 5 lety +15

      This is my favorite line

    • @singularity-
      @singularity- Před 4 lety +16

      I got teary eyed the first time I heard that line. Still gets to me.

    • @tokyopp
      @tokyopp Před 4 lety +6

      also a pick up line, if it does not work she or he is not the one lol

    • @aidenkuhls7232
      @aidenkuhls7232 Před 4 lety +7

      Douglas Holden What? No... That is exactly the opposite thing that line is trying to say. We are nothing but atoms until we get conceived. It is truly humbling and eye opening imo.

    • @al2642
      @al2642 Před 4 lety +1

      And it can be applied to ANY scale.... atoms, molecules, living beings, intellects...

  • @jthompson8587
    @jthompson8587 Před 2 lety +988

    "We're made of star stuff." YES! My husband introduced me to this video in 2010 b4 we married. Hearing it was awesome. He loved the universe with black holes, stars, galaxies. He told me and showed me so much. He now has had diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease since 2015. I whisper to him, "We are made of star stuff." And he smiles....

  • @unperfectxxx
    @unperfectxxx Před 4 lety +401

    Carl Sagan was a poet, among many other things.
    He is greatly missed.

    • @AjarnSpencer
      @AjarnSpencer Před 10 měsíci +1

      yes, but what did he mean, when he said "across the sea of space, the stars, are others, we have been this way before, and there is much to be learned"?

    • @unperfectxxx
      @unperfectxxx Před 10 měsíci +6

      @AjarnSpencer he says "across the sea of space, the stars are other suns." And "we have traveled this way before, there is much to be learned."
      Basically, looking out into the night sky, every star is a sun for its own star system, not just a tiny point of light.
      And I think what he's referring to is that we are made of star stuff, the elements that make us what we are, who we are, were forged in long dead stars which were flung out into the universe, and we've found ourselves here. And now is the time we are beginning to reach out into space once again, but we have so much to learn as we progress farther and farther.

    • @bettybarneyhill4289
      @bettybarneyhill4289 Před 5 měsíci

      @@unperfectxxxPerfect! 🥹

    • @kv2674
      @kv2674 Před 5 měsíci

      @@AjarnSpencer in the context of the cosmos episode, he basically compared interstellar travel to the discovery of the New World. Just a few centuries ago, crossing the atlantic took months and you were not assured the survive. But now, we can cross the entire world in less than a day, with the comfort of a seat!
      For what seemed impossible to people, now we can do with ease. Maybe in the far future, interstellar travel will be what plane travel is to us today, as Carl Sagan said, "we travelled this way before."

  • @danielthompson6207
    @danielthompson6207 Před 7 lety +1782

    "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." Brings actual tears of joy to my eyes

    • @isawthevideoandhereiswhati5511
      @isawthevideoandhereiswhati5511 Před 7 lety +23

      Daniel Thompson nice to meet you cosmos

    • @danielthompson6207
      @danielthompson6207 Před 7 lety +11

      isawthevideoandhereiswhatithink Nice to meet you as well, Istva Hiswit ;)

    • @AxiomApe
      @AxiomApe Před 7 lety +31

      I feel ya Daniel. If I had to be religious, Symphony of Science would be my Hymns lol.

    • @impiousdog7574
      @impiousdog7574 Před 7 lety +13

      Daniel Thompson we are all son of stars

    • @StorminMormin91
      @StorminMormin91 Před 7 lety +9

      there are most certainly metaphysics involved in Western conceptions of science.

  • @danielaabadia7490
    @danielaabadia7490 Před 8 lety +457

    I love how Feyman simply sits back and enjoys

    • @a-stoned-rose8568
      @a-stoned-rose8568 Před 8 lety +39

      I love him so much! I am so grateful that I got a chance to be on the same planet with someone so inspiring and so optimistic about nature

    • @TheGrimlok
      @TheGrimlok Před 8 lety +26

      He's just sittin' back, relaxin' enjoyin' the ride.

    • @ShellBAtoms
      @ShellBAtoms Před 6 lety +16

      I have such a crush on Richard Feynman! :-)

    • @joetoaster447
      @joetoaster447 Před 4 lety +13

      As well as rocking out hardcore on the bongos

    • @arbazali145
      @arbazali145 Před 3 lety +1

      Enjoying their own thoughts 😝

  • @rodabalajadia2622
    @rodabalajadia2622 Před 7 lety +75

    the way Richard Feynman smiles while he explains nature. you can just see his passion for science and learning, and it's beautiful. he was a wonderful human being.

  • @SomP0
    @SomP0 Před 2 lety +167

    This video made me a scientist. I watched this as a naïve child and it made me want to chase knowledge. Thank you melodysheep and these legends. You created the next generation of thinkers and scientists so I’ll try my best to do the same for the ones who come after.

    • @ronsn8071
      @ronsn8071 Před 2 lety +6

      WOW! That comment is mega nice 🥰

    • @sammeyers4365
      @sammeyers4365 Před rokem +5

      Yes to this! I watched it 10 years ago when I was 20 and it completely changed me and my way of thinking. The curiosity, wonder, awe, appreciation and connectedness to life and the universe plus the critical thinking it planted within me are a direct result of this masterpiece.

    • @topdog5252
      @topdog5252 Před rokem +8

      I completely feel you. I am only 19 now and I just found all this stuff like Carl Sagan and Feynman, and it completely empowered my will to learn science and try to see the beauty in the cosmos. I watched Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson back in 2014 when it came out and I was 10. It was not the sole reason I’ve always loved science, but it was impactful on me. To know where some of that came from with Sagan and Ann Druyan and discover the ogs. Very touching. It also brings literal tears to my eyes.

    • @peterbneto
      @peterbneto Před rokem +5

      I've graduated in biological sciences because of it.

    • @Nickname006
      @Nickname006 Před rokem +3

      @@peterbneto Nice! I became an astrophysicist because of these videos.

  • @magnusbjarnisk
    @magnusbjarnisk Před 10 lety +325

    "We've traveled this way before"
    I literally got goosebumps...He's saying that because we are made of starstuff, our atoms probably traveled across countless galaxies to finally become us for a very short moment...I love it.
    And I always get amazed at how informed and even enlightened Carl Sagan was...

    • @Doky
      @Doky Před 10 lety +9

      I just feel the same

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Před 10 lety +29

      I love that seeming Sagan Paradox. That a man who was such a devout atheist could also create some of the most spiritually profound works of the past century. He was a true poet of science and reason, and his works never cease to inspire me.

    • @jasonwest3873
      @jasonwest3873 Před 10 lety +21

      neuralmute
      I totally agree with your sentiment about how spiritually profound Sagan's works are. However, I don't think it's a paradox, because he was not an atheist, but an agnostic. As a practitioner of science, Sagan believed that conclusions should be based on verifiable evidence. Because there is no verifiable evidence for or against the existence of god (generally speaking), my understanding is that he didn't come to a conclusion one way or the other, but rather kept an open, albeit skeptical, mind to the possibilities.

    • @Sydebern
      @Sydebern Před 10 lety +1

      Carl Sagan surely was not enlightened, he was probably into the transitional phase from the old awareness into the new enlightened state, as many people currently are. I'm not denying that he was a wonderful person who contributed positivity to this world, but if he was enlightened, he would know that thought and therefore science would always completely miss that which is absolutely crucial: the reality of now. That our bodies are made of 'starr stuff' is something which science can prove, but that is not at all the profound realization of enlightenment. It is through suffering (which is ones interpretation of reality) that enlightenment eventually will be realized in everybody, every point of awareness in the universe. Then it will be known that all is literally one, not as a concept of thought, but by absolute knowing. Science is looking everywhere, except where all true answers lie: beneath the human condition which is identification with thought.

    • @neuralmute
      @neuralmute Před 10 lety +7

      Jason West
      True, he was far more agnostic than atheist; I usually think of him as being an atheist because of the strong association I draw between his works on critical thought, and the "new" atheist movement that has more or less adopted him as an icon of scientific thought. A little further thinking brings me to the conclusion that a person couldn't be a great scientist without being so full of wonder and awe at the Universe they study.
      Either way, Sagan was a truly great man, and worth every tribute.

  • @mileshill7196
    @mileshill7196 Před 10 lety +177

    This is probably the most important truth of our existence. We literally are connected to one another, to the earth, and to the universe itself. We need to try and view ourselves as such.

    • @ibrudiiv
      @ibrudiiv Před 4 lety +4

      Unfortunately, or fortunately, the brain evolved and became as such

    • @colin-campbell
      @colin-campbell Před 3 lety +7

      I can guarantee that everyone feels the same way after watching this but an hour later, we’ll all be slinging virtual mud at another person 🤙🏻

    • @Lightnings
      @Lightnings Před 3 lety +1

      @@colin-campbell
      Lol. True.

    • @Lightnings
      @Lightnings Před 3 lety

      That's the "pluri-dimensionality" of man.

  • @bb-vc2jq
    @bb-vc2jq Před 6 lety +42

    "The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." BEAUTIFUL!!

    • @armchairapologist7612
      @armchairapologist7612 Před měsícem

      Who was it that put these atoms together in such deliberate beauty and for what purpose?

  • @axelf4515
    @axelf4515 Před 3 lety +111

    “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
    ― Alan Watts

    • @remasteredretropcgames3312
      @remasteredretropcgames3312 Před 2 lety

      Uran' ape 'ature...

    • @remasteredretropcgames3312
      @remasteredretropcgames3312 Před 2 lety

      U235
      M=13 Independence day.

    • @airvent6199
      @airvent6199 Před 2 lety +2

      Alan Watts is criminally underrated!

    • @mariu2s
      @mariu2s Před rokem +6

      It amazes me to realize right now how science and spirituality are actually so similar in a deeper sense. Both are trying to explain our existence, the world etc. The spiritual is looking at the overall picture while the scientist goes very deep and looks at specific parts.

  • @megangilmore9355
    @megangilmore9355 Před 7 lety +447

    All of my heroes are in this video

    • @qpllpq876
      @qpllpq876 Před 7 lety +13

      what about Einstein, Newton, Galileu, Hubble, etc?

    • @Pyroish
      @Pyroish Před 7 lety +2

      They're not everyone's heroes

    • @qpllpq876
      @qpllpq876 Před 7 lety +5

      ***** If you cannot understand, they made significant changes on how we see the universe.
      And guess what? This video is about the universe (musically).
      BOOOOOM

    • @Pyroish
      @Pyroish Před 7 lety +3

      Bernardo Lameira Basically, Megan said that all of her heroes are in this video. Not everyone has to have those 4 amazing scientists as heroes, sure they did great contributions to the universe but not everyone has those 4 as their heroes

    • @qpllpq876
      @qpllpq876 Před 7 lety +1

      ***** Right then..

  • @RyanHDR
    @RyanHDR Před 9 lety +443

    Carl Sagan's words have changed the way I look at the universe and my own life. He has a way of weaving science into an inspiring tapestry of rhetoric that no other human being can compete with. When I imagine that all the atoms that I am made of were once part of a star, it makes all my life's problems seem trivial and gives me a deep feeling of comfort. Sagan has allowed the tiny part of the cosmos that is me to better know itself. Hang on...I think I have something in my eye... =')
    "I'm a collection of organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You're a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label. But is that all? Is there nothing inhere but molecules? Some people find that idea somehow demeaning to human dignity, but for myself I find it elevating and exhilarating to discover that we live in a universe which permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we."

    • @Doug87969
      @Doug87969 Před 9 lety +7

      Jason Kramer Alan Watts was a brilliant guy as well. He explains prickles and goo and the need for both. Vague atheists need Analytical atheists..

    • @ShakinJamacian
      @ShakinJamacian Před 9 lety +15

      Doug Blanchard While Watts did talk about the cosmos and how we go with it, he was also before Sagan. Sagan gained prominence after Watts died. Those two really were the wombo combo of articulation for what we really are, and it's a shame nobody has even come close to them since then.
      Watts showed us that the ego doesn't exist, and that there is no true, honest division in nature, and Sagan showed us very similar arguments with science. Watts used experience to realize this, and Sagan used data to showcase this, and I think both experience and data are really needed for one to understand the arguments fully. Both men showed us how interconnected this cosmos is, and it's unfortunate to see people who even in an experiential sense look at it all as cut off stuff, made by creator or mere fluke. Many feel they were something plopped into the world instead of being a process of the world.

    • @Doug87969
      @Doug87969 Před 9 lety +5

      ShakinJamacian​​ Well said, my friend. Both were very compassionate about the nature of reality and our place in it and it is definitely a contagious experience for me along with many others who have been drawn to their work. 

    • @antontonable
      @antontonable Před 7 lety +10

      I concur. I try to explain this sometimes to folks but I don't think they understand, whereas I don't have to explain anything to you because you know exactly what I feel. A buddy and I have promised each other we'd fulfill each other's wish after the other's death, and I've instructed him to put this quote from Carl on my tombstone (which is from the SoS Our Place in the Cosmos also): "We've begun at last, to wonder about our origins. Starstuff, contemplating the stars, tracing that long path. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed, not just to ourselves, but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring." Sagan's Cosmos series makes me so proud to be a part of the universe, but often times, so ashamed to be a human being =\

    • @ckihooligan
      @ckihooligan Před 5 lety

      How do you like Terence McKenna?

  • @samanthastacy6415
    @samanthastacy6415 Před 3 lety +71

    I usually find myself coming back to this at least once a year. Each time I tear up and sing along. Never forget what we actually are. Never forget how great the universe is, how vast, how beautiful.

  • @sayntfuu
    @sayntfuu Před 5 lety +117

    Still moves me deeply ten years later. Thanks again melodysheep. Feynman's obvious joy is contagious.

    • @jek__
      @jek__ Před rokem +8

      The love and joy a physicist has for understanding the world around is as pure and giddy as the innocence of a child

  • @Whitetiger187
    @Whitetiger187 Před 8 lety +888

    Sagan's voice sounds awesome in autotune

    • @AxiomApe
      @AxiomApe Před 8 lety +5

      It's not auto tune .

    • @AxiomApe
      @AxiomApe Před 8 lety +17

      It's called Melodyne

    • @segamegadrive3903
      @segamegadrive3903 Před 8 lety +5

      +Cole P Fucking hell man, it does :O

    • @ironocy496
      @ironocy496 Před 8 lety +5

      I was wondering what a ringtone of his voice in autotune would sound like, lol.

    • @danielthompson6207
      @danielthompson6207 Před 7 lety +40

      His voice was beautiful even without it :)

  • @NotQuiteNews
    @NotQuiteNews Před 8 lety +250

    Still gives me chills whenever I listen

  • @lumidotexe
    @lumidotexe Před rokem +34

    When I was 5, I learned about death, and I came crying to my mom telling her I didn’t want to die one day. She showed me this video to not only help calm me, but explain her vision of life; when you die, you return to where you came from before you were born, being connected to everything.
    I still revisit this wonderful song every now and then when I feel uncertain about the future. Love you mom ❤

    • @thederpydude2088
      @thederpydude2088 Před 9 měsíci +1

      We're only so detached from those things in the first place 🤔 We regularly gain new matter as we eat and lose it as our cells die and shed. In that way, a bit of the universe travels through us as we travel through it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We're all just kinda stirred into this soup of existence like that XD

    • @vealslab7757
      @vealslab7757 Před 7 měsíci

      The universe is probably just one living being among many universes just like it there's probably only one Earth with earthlings but they're probably are many planets with many sentient beings like us mentally in some ways at least or they might be vastly strange compared to us I have no idea and neither do the scientists yet but they at least try to stick to the truth of what we can prove or think we can at least. Which comes down to how powerful thoughts are. Scientists can't pin down what a thought is or where it comes from but yet we all have them and if you don't then you're mentally challenged on some level which appears bad to us. What if the universe is just thoughts and matter is just a way for the universe to experience its thoughts there might be a planet for every living thing individually since we all experience life individually The aliens are already here or they never will be

  • @lux3090
    @lux3090 Před 4 lety +30

    “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but they way they are put together”
    ~Carl

    • @CatsAreBestest
      @CatsAreBestest Před 5 měsíci

      I was scrolling through comments and the second I start reading yours, the song started singing it in sync lol

  • @PixelCortex
    @PixelCortex Před 9 lety +1337

    When I die, I want to go to a place where I can listen to NdGT, Bill Nye, Sagan, Feynman talk about the universe forever

    • @ShinyAvalon
      @ShinyAvalon Před 9 lety +86

      PixelCortex: Save a seat for me.

    • @N8crafter
      @N8crafter Před 9 lety +54

      Shiny Aeon hope there are lots of seats.

    • @dailystupidshit
      @dailystupidshit Před 9 lety +35

      Nathan Strebe i think the universe has enough seats for everyone, literally. everyone who wants to be there at least.
      hey, three makes a party, we should go together and then we can use the carpool lane.

    • @jaghatarhortubenlolfyhj6722
      @jaghatarhortubenlolfyhj6722 Před 9 lety +24

      PixelCortex when i die, i want to go to a place where i can understand the universe.

    • @gamrage
      @gamrage Před 9 lety +20

      PixelCortex Well, when you're dead, you will be unable to hear anything due to a lack of brain functionality. If you ask any of these scientific minds and experts, they'll likely explain that to you in depth. When I die, I'll be dead. No one needs to do anything for my corpse. Even if I had a request, it's not like I'll be aware of anyone filling out my request. (all these scientists are likely atheist or agnostic)

  • @scottbexon1975
    @scottbexon1975 Před 10 lety +234

    The clip of Richard Feynman drumming fills my heart with so much joy.
    Great song. Great video.

  • @donnythompson408
    @donnythompson408 Před 7 lety +130

    As an audio/studio engineer, I recognize the technical work that went into this. As a songwriter, it amazes me. As a human, it humbles me, and moves me to tears. Incredible, poignant, soul stirring. What an absolutely gorgeous piece this is.

    • @shirleypena4133
      @shirleypena4133 Před rokem +5

      @Donny Thompson My thoughts exactly! 👍👍

    • @OldieWan
      @OldieWan Před rokem +2

      Truly it is. 🥸 I give it all the praise in this world and beyond. It makes the universe a better place for being a part of it.

  • @wendyongaro4641
    @wendyongaro4641 Před rokem +31

    I was pregnant when I first heard this. I still weep to know that star stuff was fearfully and wonderfully knit inside my body to create my beautiful child, a child connected to the world and universe around her.

  • @EddieSchultz62
    @EddieSchultz62 Před 10 lety +178

    "I find it elevating and exhilerating to discover that we live in a universe which permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we"
    I watched this video a couple days after it was first posted, and it still brings a tear to my eye, as it did that first view. EXCELLENT!!!

    • @MohandeepSingh007
      @MohandeepSingh007 Před 9 lety +1

      Me too! :-) .....................UNIVERSE IS ALL ABOUT TRUTH,LOVE AND ELEGANCE!

  • @maratonec5
    @maratonec5 Před 8 lety +587

    this is the new scientific spirituality that humanity needs to embrace to survive

    • @kellywilson-lawson1857
      @kellywilson-lawson1857 Před 8 lety +15

      So true

    • @TaelurAlexis
      @TaelurAlexis Před 8 lety +11

      YES

    • @spacefolder
      @spacefolder Před 7 lety +27

      Just imagine if every single person in the world could get this message. Next evolutive step.

    • @VeganStories
      @VeganStories Před 4 lety +8

      We would finally save ourselves from our own destruction if we did this

    • @kippert1987
      @kippert1987 Před 4 lety +8

      It takes an immense amount of mental fortitude to move past the nihilistic view and avoid the void that that can inevitably lead to. There is no doubt that if humanity could achieve that then we would surpass ourselves in ways we can't imagine, but I fear that the things preventing us from doing so are too deeply ingrained in the mechanism of nature (in the nature Vs nurture sense) and are a fundamental symptom of those mechanisms.

  • @saboonlecoon6450
    @saboonlecoon6450 Před 6 lety +64

    Play these at my funeral pls🤧

    • @abiaglopez5922
      @abiaglopez5922 Před 5 lety +5

      ok i will

    • @Mossad577
      @Mossad577 Před 2 lety

      Hey bro are you dead...?? Just want to confirm..🙄 I have to play..

  • @AquilusDesign
    @AquilusDesign Před rokem +39

    1:01 gives me chills everytime, simply wonderful

    • @paddleduck5328
      @paddleduck5328 Před rokem

      Oooh I had one of those coincidences where I was exactly at that point when I read your comment 😁 lol there should be a term created for it

  • @AmeliaLidstrom
    @AmeliaLidstrom Před 7 lety +107

    the beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it; it's the way those atoms are put together
    BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF STARS

    • @AxiomApe
      @AxiomApe Před 7 lety +6

      The Cosmos is also within us; we're made of star-stuff. We are a way, for the Cosmos to know itself.
      :)

  • @zarasbazaar
    @zarasbazaar Před 9 lety +74

    Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, you are missed.

  • @williamkern7931
    @williamkern7931 Před 3 lety +38

    Carl Sagan's voice is a peaceful tranquilizer

  • @ablone
    @ablone Před 4 lety +48

    Is it weird if this brings tears to my eyes? It's just so beautiful.

    • @Lyra0966
      @Lyra0966 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Not weird at all. Now listen to this again on mushrooms or acid, and your mind will really be blown!

  • @RelaxingASMR
    @RelaxingASMR Před 10 lety +558

    Our typical day-to-day thoughts seem so petty and sometimes even pathetic after watching this.

  • @a-stoned-rose8568
    @a-stoned-rose8568 Před 8 lety +350

    I listen to this everyday, it's so comforting

    • @tomfallout1965
      @tomfallout1965 Před 8 lety +1

      A stoned rose you get a sub for this

    • @karlboson4803
      @karlboson4803 Před 8 lety +1

      Need to make that part of my routine too.

    • @ironocy496
      @ironocy496 Před 8 lety

      Weird, I was thinking both top comments so far. Well, I was thinking about how I haven't heard this in far too long and need to listen to it more to remind me of the inconceivable nature of nature.

    • @eddieschultz7552
      @eddieschultz7552 Před 8 lety +4

      I've been listening to it since it first came out in 2009, and I agree. :)

    • @justkilledu
      @justkilledu Před 8 lety +2

      sameeee

  • @taintedriver
    @taintedriver Před 3 lety +21

    My science teacher showed me this in fourth grade and it's been stuck in my head for years. Occasionally, at random times, I'd think about one of the parts Bill Nye sang and just get on CZcams and try to find the song again. I'm a freshman now, 5 years later, I finally found the song.

    • @tjwukitsch6505
      @tjwukitsch6505 Před 3 lety +4

      Because of Carl Sagan, and some other life events, I became a scientist. Never lose your sense of wonder. If you don't know how... figure out how.

    • @taintedriver
      @taintedriver Před 2 lety

      @@tjwukitsch6505 AWWWW THANK YOU THIS IS VERY INSPIRING

  • @Cardgar
    @Cardgar Před 4 lety +12

    "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" - This line gets me every time

  • @sockruhtease
    @sockruhtease Před 10 lety +1808

    This song makes me want to grab people in the streets and say "have you heard this?!"

  • @Ms2blue1pink
    @Ms2blue1pink Před 10 lety +17

    I love this! While talking to my 9 year old about death, she told me "mom, when you die, your body disolves into the universe like sugar into water"...I need to show her this. Her wise words gave me such comfort.

  • @eriedmann
    @eriedmann Před rokem +11

    commenting almost exactly 13 years after this was released. I hope you know, Melodysheep, that someone out there returns to this video whenever they need a shot of optimism and beauty. This song hits somewhere DEEEEEP inside my heart and i love it! thank you!!

  • @MrBikboi
    @MrBikboi Před 3 lety +41

    Richard Feynman is one of the greatest men in history, listening to the curiosity and passion in his voice sends shivers down my spine even with natures cruel way of sending him back to the cosmos too early.

  • @CheesecakeCaptain
    @CheesecakeCaptain Před 10 lety +24

    The repeating sound clip of Feynman playing the Congas is the icing on the cake!
    Haha, love it! The creativity is strong with Melodysheep!

  • @briansnow2001
    @briansnow2001 Před 10 lety +18

    So cool that Feynman is drumming on this video. Feynman is one of my heros.

    • @abiaglopez5922
      @abiaglopez5922 Před 5 lety +1

      all of the guys in this video just like marvel avenger heroes

  • @sandragreicius9692
    @sandragreicius9692 Před 2 lety +17

    I absolutely adore this. How can tears NOT come to your eyes?

  • @charlibryant5543
    @charlibryant5543 Před 5 lety +36

    Never gets old. Should be played in schools

    • @eduardofernandez6085
      @eduardofernandez6085 Před 2 lety +3

      That’s where I heard it

    • @1992columba
      @1992columba Před rokem +1

      They should teach more kids about Carl Sagan he was truly a treasure.

    • @sarahfrance2750
      @sarahfrance2750 Před rokem +3

      My science teacher did show us this in 2011

    • @temisanphillips2830
      @temisanphillips2830 Před rokem +1

      i heard this for the first time in a physics lesson! i come back to visit it at least once a year

  • @deebadubbie
    @deebadubbie Před 8 lety +89

    I watch this every time I need to give a lecture to Bachelor students. Inspiring to see the great educators so fascinated by the unknown and the known of our being. I hope to take some of this to my classes.

  • @FreshHeat
    @FreshHeat Před 3 lety +18

    I remember when this was the forefront of content innovation. Was an exciting time for the internet.

  • @KyleBJobey
    @KyleBJobey Před 4 lety +11

    The Richard Feynman "solo" is so inspiring. There is such power and enthusiasm just bursting out of him. So inspiring :)

  • @kingtiger2.2002
    @kingtiger2.2002 Před 2 lety +10

    I love how passionately feynman talks about science ❤️

  • @Negative179
    @Negative179 Před 8 lety +436

    My teacher showed the class this in Chemistry...

    • @Supernova094
      @Supernova094 Před 8 lety +29

      +AppleDunk i wish i had such a teacher , sadly had none in my 17 years of education

    • @lrahe201016
      @lrahe201016 Před 8 lety +4

      same

    • @MaximC
      @MaximC Před 8 lety +17

      +Saketh Kurapati
      Let's hope someday there will only be teachers like that.

    • @junowang3646
      @junowang3646 Před 8 lety +4

      +Maxim C. that will sure make the world a better place!

    • @Fuar11
      @Fuar11 Před 7 lety +1

      No One no, you are no one

  • @woodwatts
    @woodwatts Před 4 lety +17

    Amazing. I remember downloading this video to mp3 years ago and just enjoying it. 9 years later at 26, I still love it 👍🏽

  • @Marty4Life
    @Marty4Life Před 3 lety +14

    Still lifts me up when I'm down. Classic.

  • @lioko180
    @lioko180 Před 27 dny +3

    14 years ago. My Spanish teacher showed this video to a class of 12 year olds. And the way my eyes look at this world was never the same. Thank you.

  • @JeffreyRamsey
    @JeffreyRamsey Před 10 lety +59

    This was uploaded in 2009 and I'm just now seeing it for the first time. I was a small thinker, then.

    • @JeffreyRamsey
      @JeffreyRamsey Před 10 lety +2

      Watch it, dammit?

    • @JeffreyRamsey
      @JeffreyRamsey Před 10 lety +3

      Today is the day. The cosmos comes on today, but only 30 min show.

    • @SeEpiNIncoherentRambling
      @SeEpiNIncoherentRambling Před 10 lety +2

      I saw it in 2010 and copied my feeling of accomplishment perfectly. Since you like this check out "the adventures of mark twain". Search 'scary cartoon' and watch the video with the same name. There's a more popular views one too.

    • @QazRiyami
      @QazRiyami Před 5 lety +1

      Lol watching it in 2018 here

    • @mohdaashirkhan943
      @mohdaashirkhan943 Před 4 lety +1

      Here IAM in sep 2019

  • @SFIUSSINDIANA
    @SFIUSSINDIANA Před 8 lety +14

    I just keep coming back here...and almost weep every time at how little we know. How I will never know or live to see what mankind will become.

  • @shelbybanda9309
    @shelbybanda9309 Před 4 lety +11

    This song was my childhood. I’m so glad it’s still on CZcams after all these years

    • @lukeali1580
      @lukeali1580 Před 3 lety

      Same

    • @OldieWan
      @OldieWan Před 3 lety +2

      The clips and scenes are from my childhood back in the 70's and 80's!
      This song honestly gave me chills and brought a few tears come streaming down my face.
      This song is by nature, timeless!

  • @Blottingpaper
    @Blottingpaper Před 3 lety +8

    Sagan was so poetic in his delivery of knowledge. I remember the day this was first released, and here I am 11 years later. Keep going Melodysheep!

  • @AudienceMurderer
    @AudienceMurderer Před 10 lety +9

    One of my favorite parts is: "I find it elevating and exhilarating
    to discover that we live in a universe which permits the evolution of molecular machines as intricate and subtle as we."

  • @Soundole
    @Soundole Před 8 lety +282

    When I listen to this again in 2015, it takes me right back to where I first heard it in 2010. To before I began a quest to learn as much as I could about the universe and these masters of science communication. Melodysheep is one of the extremely rare handful of musicians that I can say without exaggeration changed my life.

    • @PixelCortex
      @PixelCortex Před 8 lety +8

      I've always been interested in learning about the universe since before this video, but it had a similar impact on me too (I think I was also high lol). Watching this today still gives me goosebumps.

    • @TheMegaphone77
      @TheMegaphone77 Před 6 lety +4

      this one video also influenced me in a similar way. It literally transformed me into a more curious person eager to wrap my head around the fundamental nature of nature.

    • @jasonbolton2067
      @jasonbolton2067 Před 6 lety

      SAME!

    • @zacharyromero9377
      @zacharyromero9377 Před 6 lety

      I remember seeing this first as a weird middle schooler and wanting to get into astronomy and everything before I remembered I hate science and just like this song

    • @kevinmcgowan9250
      @kevinmcgowan9250 Před 6 lety +5

      It's crazy, it did the same thing to me around that time. I dove into all these peoples' books and lectures and they inspired me to go back to school and get a degree in mechanical engineering. This one video literally started all that.

  • @RufusTheRed
    @RufusTheRed Před rokem +4

    I watch this regularly and just cry lost in the beauty that is existential dread.

  • @justbreathe7816
    @justbreathe7816 Před 5 lety +6

    Richard Feynman playing bongo at the beginning made me really happy.

  • @jessicamussiomarquez
    @jessicamussiomarquez Před 7 lety +30

    ❤️ been watching/listening to this for 7 years ❤️ beautiful minds

    • @stillspooky
      @stillspooky Před 7 lety +3

      It just came up on my "Facebook memories," I had posted this seven years ago

  • @BMTHxxx100
    @BMTHxxx100 Před 8 lety +27

    whoever makes this is clearly a genius

  • @agentham
    @agentham Před 5 lety +11

    A good place to come when I get lost in the entropy. Love this song.

  • @justamanofculture12
    @justamanofculture12 Před 4 lety +7

    The most connected comment section ♥️💕❤️. Still love this even after 8 years.

  • @stiphnlegit5813
    @stiphnlegit5813 Před 7 lety +27

    love this since first time I found it on CZcams.. 5 half years ago.. wow time flys

  • @pavelradev1990
    @pavelradev1990 Před 9 lety +7

    This is so beautiful. I can almost cry.

  • @crisphighfives
    @crisphighfives Před 4 lety +5

    Feynman playing bongos is just masterful in this video. Fits so elegantly

  • @joshuaa.c.newman7430
    @joshuaa.c.newman7430 Před rokem +4

    This is still so beautiful.

  • @Maquox
    @Maquox Před 8 lety +72

    Existing is just so amazing it makes me tear up :')

    • @treywdavis
      @treywdavis Před 7 lety +7

      Maquox, I totally and completely understand and feel what you are saying. My sentiments exactly. But I cannot explain it. The most beautiful things are unexplainable.

    • @Maquox
      @Maquox Před 7 lety +3

      Science makes a nice try though! :D

    • @yvanimperionetti7204
      @yvanimperionetti7204 Před 7 lety +6

      The same thing happends to me...the universe is "we" and "we" are the universe..... :')

    • @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND
      @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND Před 7 lety +2

      Just as the buddha and other wise sages forsaw.

    • @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND
      @OFFICIALFUNUSBAND Před 7 lety +1

      Dalton C. hmhm thats right. They did not have any mystical magic we dont have. Dunno why you think i aimed at that but its okay.

  • @richardblanchard561
    @richardblanchard561 Před 8 lety +69

    i just got a braingasm

  • @haven876
    @haven876 Před 6 lety +104

    "I think nature's imagination is so much greater than mans."
    🖤🖖

  • @EddieSchultz62
    @EddieSchultz62 Před 2 lety +5

    I just listened to this wonderful piece again, and it still makes me have tears!
    Wonderful!

  • @ZombieNightmareSquad
    @ZombieNightmareSquad Před 8 lety +22

    This gives me the chills, best lyrics ive heard!

  • @optrirominiluikus
    @optrirominiluikus Před 8 lety +35

    Here i am, seven years later, and it's still an awesome song.

  • @tedrocksitout
    @tedrocksitout Před 3 lety +6

    Almost 11 years later - this is still so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. A lot has changed in 11 years - but almost all of it is our perception, and almost none of it is the things in this video.

  • @gopalmehta9418
    @gopalmehta9418 Před 2 lety +3

    The world need more carl sagan

  • @DajJednego
    @DajJednego Před 7 lety +28

    Maaan, I remember when I first listened to that in 2009. This was THE song. Together with my friend we would always smile at "it makes me wanna grab people on the streets: Have you heard this?!" :)

  • @enchantedowl9859
    @enchantedowl9859 Před 3 lety +3

    I discovered this channel today. It's a good day. 💕

  • @MsSujoy
    @MsSujoy Před 3 lety +4

    My day is made when I saw Feynman playing the drum with such a passion.

  • @scienceaffairs2919
    @scienceaffairs2919 Před 3 lety +15

    This is why a scientist devote his or her whole life to understand this cosmos because this is the only reality which we can understand properly and appreciate❤❤❤

  • @dartling8167
    @dartling8167 Před 10 lety +25

    I'm so sad that Sagan's dead, he was an amazing.. Everything.

    • @raenlared
      @raenlared Před 10 lety +2

      SAGAN IS DEAD???!!!!!!!!!! OMG

    • @maartencardol
      @maartencardol Před 5 lety +4

      I love what Neil deGrasse Tyson said about Carl. Something along the lines of "that night he said, if the bus does not come through you can come spend Christmas evening with my family. " then Neil said about the quote before "That day i did not just discover what kind of scientist i wanted to be, i also found out what kind of man i wanted to be" these words really touch me.

  • @KASASpace
    @KASASpace Před 10 lety +45

    "Who wants to go and explore space?"
    *raises hand instantly*

  • @wazzal7
    @wazzal7 Před 4 lety +7

    This has been stuck in my head since 2009. It is timeless, just as the source material it is derived from.

  • @IamAvidity
    @IamAvidity Před 3 lety +3

    We have traveled this way before and there is much to be learned

  • @amazonhippie7826
    @amazonhippie7826 Před 23 dny +3

    This was awesome 14 years ago. I can’t believe it’s been that long. My friend Renee and I used to listen to this. She died 4 or 5 years ago.

  • @SensiDini
    @SensiDini Před 2 lety +5

    This tune still brings me to tears. Love it

  • @lulutwentytwo
    @lulutwentytwo Před 5 lety +10

    2019 and this still gets stuck in my head sometimes, 'billions and billions of stars, billions and billions of specks!'
    So grateful to be a speck helping the universe to know itself !

  • @timothybrittain4161
    @timothybrittain4161 Před 3 lety +4

    This video never fails to bring tears to my eyes. In awe for what there is to see and know, in gratitude for how much we've learned, and in sadness for the ignorance of so many still living in the dark ages.

  • @djinnisequoia
    @djinnisequoia Před 4 lety +5

    Ten years, and I still get a tear in my eye. This song is to me a significant contribution to the love of science.

  • @NaderMoavenianIran
    @NaderMoavenianIran Před 9 lety +12

    I have been feeling the connection all my life. I wish all people did so as well, then our planet would have been a better place for mankind.

  • @themaster408
    @themaster408 Před 5 lety +59

    Who here listens to this song every time they feel like being connected or want to be inspired?

  • @joesmith3986
    @joesmith3986 Před 3 lety +1

    And we are part of this and it is in us. Thank you Melody sheep. I have to give thanks and apprase you.

  • @Milenko00
    @Milenko00 Před 2 lety +3

    Think I'm gonna like this playlist, wish I'd found this 12 years ago. My bro would've loved this

  • @JD37
    @JD37 Před 3 lety +15

    We need to adopt this belief system in order to survive as a global community. Fortunately, it’s so damn cool.

  • @immaYoubing
    @immaYoubing Před rokem +6

    Sometimes I motivated myself to study science, philosophy, fun fact, etc, by listening to this song. "And there is much to be learned...." Hell yeah!!

  • @kingtiger2.2002
    @kingtiger2.2002 Před 2 lety +4

    Carl sagan is my hero, I never knew him or was alive when he was, but I miss him so much. My favourite person in the world, I love you carl!.

    • @VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt
      @VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt Před 2 lety +3

      you are not alone. exactly same story of me

    • @kingtiger2.2002
      @kingtiger2.2002 Před rokem +1

      @@VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt hey man I really wanna talk science with somebody. Do you have an instagram account?

  • @shanebruce1
    @shanebruce1 Před 8 lety +8

    This still brings tears to my eyes every time I see it I think this is one of the most Religious works of art out there! Thank you Melody Sheep! Again, and again, a thousand thanks for making this video that ever reminds me of who I am!

  • @keithwienersz7705
    @keithwienersz7705 Před rokem +3

    I heard this about 13 years ago and, man ! Still listening to it ! Very nostalgic ! Takes me RIGHT back to the night & room I was in when I discovered this. Thank you.

  • @marionallen8356
    @marionallen8356 Před 3 lety +5

    So inspiring in these troubled timed.. Raise up our eyes and hearts! Thank you so much. I do hope this goes viral.. I so love it

  • @gopalmehta9418
    @gopalmehta9418 Před 2 lety +3

    Miss you very much carl sagan