Carl Sagan - A thousand years of darkness
Its happened before... Carl contemplates that the "submission to ethnic, religious or national identifications" and the rejection of scientific values will leave us tenuously on the brink of a 2nd (and possibly final) dark age.
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In this excerpt from the final episode of Sagan's 'Cosmos,' he discusses why the momentous discoveries of the ancient world were unable to prevent the dark ages from virtually banishing scientific thought for a millennium, and how the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge, the great library of Alexandria, met its regrettable end. A sobering statement on what ignorance, apathy and fanaticism can do if left unchallenged.
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Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: thingsihaveseen2
Length: 09:44
Rating: 4.95
Views: 88565
Tags: 1000 ages Alexandria Carl cosmos dark Hypatia Sagan Shakespeare
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