@Tuya56
Yes Democritus was way ahead of his time. always admired his idea. "Nothing exists except atoms and space; everything else is opinions."
@Merecocross
I love Carl Sagan's voice, and I love how each word seems to go in a long process in his head before he pronounces it.
@robertfox292
Dr Sagan we miss you
@BobBogaert
Eternally thankful to Carl Sagan for this series. It put me on a path in my college years, and haven't suffered from diminished curiosity since. Couple of brief notes: Democritus inherited 100 talents from his father. So that puts the idea of "Rather being poor in a democracy than rich in a tyranny" in perspective. The persecution of Anaxagoras can be seen as intolerance against science, but it's more likely that he was prosecuted by Cleon for being an ally of Pericles. The sculptor Phidias was also prosecuted in an attempt to undermine Pericles' power and Athenian democracy.
@TardigradeTough
Carl Sagan's The Cosmos is what got me hooked on finding how things work in great detail and I'm so grateful I followed that path!
@Skedarking85
I heart Sagan. Wish I would have been more into science when he was still alive.
@dave929
We watched Cosmos when it first came out. My dad (in his late 40’s) hated the series because he had no clue what he was talking about. My mother (early 40’s) only watched to see and hear him talk. Me - senior in school and science geek, on the other hand - knew a bunch of stuff and was learning from him.
@vdizhoor
I recently watched this part of Cosmos, and wondered how much of what we have from the Ancients was originally theirs and how much of it was introduced by later scribes who could introduce their ideas while copying manuscripts. Not to diminish the contributions of the Ionians, but it might be that some progress was still being made in secret through the Dark Ages, in forms of modifications of already existing texts / pseudepigrapha, to hide the thinker from the Church. If so - THANK YOU!
@ConsecratedOblivion
@toragpoons Ya gotta hand it to Sagan, the man had swagger. I've noticed he also had a thing for apples. He uses them in so many of his lectures. Truly a beautiful soul. RIP.
@Prifly70
ASMR that I don't want to sleep to because I want to learn. Dr.Sagan top 10 people to go back in time and have a conversation with.
@dingleberry741
if only he were still among us i would vote for the first and last time for sagan. his policys would be irrelevent, he is sagan.
@motaparatu
Although Carl Sagan is no longer with us, he has achieved a sort of immortality few can know. His existence made the world a better place and he has enriched the lives of those he left behind.
@JosephusAurelius
Democritus was the prime example of genius
@tartgreenapple
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. - DAN BARKER
@history4057
Democritus was an incredible mind.
@SergeantBagel
You know a video is good when it has ZERO dislikes.
@StudioGhibli
@Skedarking85 - I admitted this today in a meeting with co-workers about people who had influenced me--that I wish I had been more into science while Sagan was alive.
@wicked1172
"Poverty in a democracy is far better than wealth in a tyrany"
@RO-uz4oi
I still miss Carl
@leokimvideo