I have not much to say about this, except: Beauty.
Via The Anchoress. Thank you, Ma’am. Thank you very much.
No, wait, I do have a couple of things to say:
The story of cosmology and evolution is the story told by the Stars and Stones, Cells and Bones. It is all one story, and its great power and beauty is that it shows us what Gregory Bateson called “The Pattern That Connects”.
We are not special, we are part and parcel of the Universe, a link in a chain of existence going back to the Bright Beginning.
We are Star Stuff, and we are all one with each other, with all life, with every thing.
“Thou Art God” — Robert Heinlein
I also left a couple of comments at the Anchoress’ site.
Lyrics [from The Symphony of Science website] below the fold:
[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
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