依个人喜好摘录,绝大部分采集自网上下载的本片英文字幕,经过排版格式编辑整理,仅粗略核对过,不保证完全正确。
E2
Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
E3
The human talent for pattern recognition is a two-edged sword. We're especially good at finding patterns, even when they aren't really there -- something known as "false pattern recognition." We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we're all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet.
……
It's called the Oort Cloud, after Jan Oort, the Dutch astronomer who foretold its existence back in 1950. ...... Oort was also the first to correctly estimate the distance between the Sun and the center of our galaxy. That's a big deal -- finding out where we are in the Milky Way. Our star is about 30,000 light-years from the center. Oort was also the first guy to use a radio telescope to map the galaxy's spiral structure. And he discovered that the center of our galaxy was a place of titanic explosions, the first indication that there might have been a supermassive black hole lurking there.
Does the fact that most of us know the names of mass murderers, but never heard of Jan Oort, say anything about us?
At the time, the World Society of London was the world's clearinghouse of scientific discovery. Its motto, "Nullius in verba," sums up the heart of the scientific method. It's Latin for "see for yourself." In other words, "question authority."
E6
Democritus of Abdera was a true scientist, a man with a passionate desire to know the cosmos and to have fun. This is the man who once said, "a life without parties would be like an endless road without an end."
- "You mean, that's it? That's all there is? Just a bunch of atoms in a void?"
- "Yep. Well, think about it. The world has to be made of countless indivisible particles in a void. Otherwise, nothing could move or grow, be divided or changed without atoms and empty space for them to move in. So don't be sad, my friends. Just think of the infinite possibilities that arise from different arrangements of those atoms. Hails to the atoms, in this cup and in this wine... And to the laughter they make possible."
E9
Each of us is a tiny being riding on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.
E11
Human intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen. The ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hard-wired tendencies, sometimes themselves disguised as the light of reason, is worrisome. But if our intelligence is the only edge, we must learn to use it better. To sharpen it. To understand its limitations and deficiencies. To use it as cats use stealth before pouncing. As walking sticks use camouflage. To make it the tool of our survival.
If we do this, we can solve almost any problem we are likely to confront in the next 100,000 years.
Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the solar system and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by their knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe came from Earth.
They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross... before we found our way.
E13
We call it "dark energy," but that name, like "dark matter," is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
---------- (↓ Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot") ----------
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
---------- (↑ Carl Sagan, "Pale Blue Dot") ----------
How did we, tiny creatures living on that speck of dust, ever manage to figure out how to send spacecraft out among the stars of the Milky Way?
Only a few centuries ago, a mere second of cosmic time, we knew nothing of where or when we were. Oblivious to the rest of the cosmos, we inhabited a kind of prison -- a tiny universe bounded by a nutshell. How did we escape from the prison? It was the work of generations of searchers who took five simple rules to heart:
Question authority - No idea is true just because someone says so, including me. Think for yourself.
Question yourself - Don't believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn't make it so.
Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment - If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it's wrong! Get over it.
Follow the evidence, wherever it leads - If you have no evidence, reserve judgment. And perhaps the most important rule of all...
Remember, you could be wrong - Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history, they all made mistakes. Of course they did -- they were human. Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves... and each other.
Have scientists known sin? Of course. We have misused science, just as we have every other tool at our disposal, and that's why we can't afford to leave it in the hands of a powerful few. The more science belongs to all of us, the less likely it is to be misused.
附:本片的一个英文的 Episode Guide 加各集内容概要(概要其实相当详细,但并不是解说词的拷贝):
http://evolution.about.com/od/Cosmos/能结识到这部令人感动的记录片,缘起于知乎上一个热门话题:
“有人在不经意间或是在世界上绝大部分人都毫不知情的情况下拯救了世界吗?”
在热门回答中,water five讲述的两个故事:其一为一战时放过希特勒的英军士兵;其二就是本部记录片中因为测算地球年龄而发现石油工业照成产铅过量污染大气,危害人体健康并与之斗争,终得成功的克莱尔-帕得森先生。(
http://www.zhihu.com/question/27549647)
water five是一位写字高手,被勾起兴趣的我,就在网易公开课上找来了这部已经翻译好的记录片(
http://v.163.com/special/opencourse/aspacetimeodyssey.html)
一看,而且一发不可收拾的一口气看完了----震惊,感动,感恩。
震惊---为了其画面之精美,讲述之详实,叙事之绝妙技巧。
记得原来背新概念四时里面有一篇文章:
Beauty---And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world, cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another. 有些美是不可言的,有些道是不可道德,譬如宇宙星空之美,又如科学探索之道。君记否《道德经》曾言:“大方无隅,大器晚成。大音希声,大象无形。”所以从古至今,我们仰望星空时,多怀有敬畏之心,不禁会发“江畔何人初见月?江月何年初照人?”之感慨! 对于科学探索,更是有多少人能阐明其道呢?一个物理定律,一个数学公式,一个化学方程式,难倒了多少科学家;愁煞了多少少年郎。
但这部记录片就能用那绝妙想象之舟带领你我,突破时间,空间的极限,古到洪荒,远到天地时空尽头;大可俯瞰星空之美,星系之繁,小可观细胞,分子,原子,电子,量子--。让我们能体验星空之美,造化之奇,科学之神力。学习源于兴趣,就连大神当年明月也说:历史应该可以写的好看。有了一部《明朝那些事儿》,多了多少明粉,又多了多少探究华夏悠久历史的翻书人;这部记录片用令人震惊之美,可以勾起多少人的兴趣,就能增几分世人对星空,对科学研究的欲望,让世人往蒙昧之荒前行了几步。
感动----- 全集分为十三部。一部一主题,部部皆有感人之处。捡来几处暂分享之,若欲详观,且自找来看。
其一——有哥白尼、布鲁诺为天文学献身,鲁迅先生曾有“灵台无计逃神矢,风雨如磐暗故园。寄意寒星荃不察,我以我血荐轩辕。”慷慨之言;哥白尼,目盲身死《天体运行论》,乔尔丹诺·布鲁诺鲜花广场以身献火维护发展日心说。
其三----哈雷与牛顿,一位万有引力,一位哈雷彗星,且纪录片中所述他俩人相处之事,让人有鲍叔牙-管仲,萧何-韩信,伯牙-钟子期之感;牛顿和胡克之间的争,牛顿晚年沉迷于神学,又让人看到了人性之缺陷。科学无国界,科学家有国界。发现无高低,人品有高低。
其七----地球化学家克莱尔·帕特森,以个人之力与石油行业
“铅污染”的一场环境保卫战。想起了当年明月给于谦的评价:人们不会忘记,正是这个人在危难之际挺身而出,力挽狂澜,保卫京城和大明的半壁江山,拯救了无数平民百姓的生命。 在这个污浊的世界上,能够干干净净度过自己一生的人,是值得钦佩的。 而如果他还能做出一些成就,那么我们就可以说,这是一个伟大的人。他的伟大不需要任何人去肯定,也不需要任何证明,因为他的一生就如同他的那首诗一样,坦坦荡荡,堪与日月同辉。
感恩———这部记录片,就像盗火的普罗米修斯:
是谁?让漫漫黑夜跳跃希望的火苗?
是谁?让蛮荒时代沐浴文明的曙光?
是谁?甘愿触犯天条也要救人类于水火?
是谁?深受酷刑却无怨无悔?
啊!巨人,是你给人类带来火种。
送来光和热,
送来人类新的纪元!
感谢奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森,这位黑人胖叔叔——他一位以从事科学传播闻名的美国天文学家,现任罗斯地球与太空中心海顿天象馆弗雷德里克·罗斯馆长;同时也是美国自然史博物馆天文物理部的助理研究员。
我始终认为,这样的科学家比国内一些用自己都看不懂,不相信的数据理论去SCI里滥竽充数,骗取职称福利的科学家更值得尊重。(当然这跟国内的科学体制也有关,不能简单归结于某个个人,谁不想堂堂正正做人,不造这些垃圾,以后有机会再详谈。)
中国也有这样的科普天文馆长:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODMzOTQyMTE2.html?firsttime=309感谢福斯广播公司(FOX)和国家地理频道(NGC),当然国家地理频道不仅应当受这一部记录片之感谢,数以千记的佳品皆出自它手。
感谢网易公开课,以及其他为它引进中国而辛勤工作的所有人。知识的传播,离不开优秀的媒体。
PS:写在最后,
有人要拍《三体》,我是支持的。
起码有人关注了,无论好坏。
好了,可以借鉴;坏了,也可以在此基础上改进。
我们没有风险,
有风险的是做这件事儿的人。
作为观众,读者的我们也要宽容,这样我们才有更多好的内容来享受。
http://card.weibo.com/article/h5/s#cid=1001603804696631494433&vid=5489937891&extparam=遵从5条简单规则who took five simple rules to heart.
1、质疑权威Question authority.
不轻信人言No idea is true just because someone says so,
包括自己在内including me.
2、独立思考Think for yourself.
3、自我质疑Question yourself.
不因自己想要相信 而相信任何事情Don't believe anything just because you want to.
相信不代表能成为现实Believing something doesn't make it so.
4、依靠观察与实验 Test ideas by the evidence gained
以实证检验想法from observation and experiment.
如果自己喜欢的想法没有通过全面的检验If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test,
它就是错的it's wrong!
乐观一点Get over it.
遵循证据 无论它指向哪里Follow the evidence, wherever it leads.
如果没有证据 不妄下定论If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.
5、也许最重要的规则就是 And perhaps the most important rule of all...
要记住 你也会犯错Remember, you could be wrong.
即使是最优秀的科学家Even the best scientists
也曾经在某些事情上犯错have been wrong about some things.
牛顿 爱因斯坦Newton, Einstein,
还有历史上每一位伟大的科学家and every other great scientist in history,
他们都犯过错they all made mistakes.
这很正常 是人都会犯错Of course they did-- they were human.
科学让我们不再欺骗自己Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves...
欺骗别人and each other.
科学家们有罪吗Have scientists known sin?
有的Of course.
我们曾滥用科学We have misused science, just as we have
就像手边的工具一样随意使用every other tool at our disposal,
因此我们不能把科学and that's why we can't afford
放在少数的掌权者手中to leave it in the hands of a powerful few.
当科学更多的属于全人类时The more science belongs to all of us,
它就越不会被乱用the less likely it is to be misused.
科学的价值能阻止These values undermine the appeals
狂热与无知of fanaticism and ignorance
不愧为IMDB排名前6的电视系列,本剧展现出的科学精神以及带给观众的思考远远超越了影片视觉效果给人的震撼。既能够深入浅出地讲解人类对宇宙的探索史,又能够形象乃至是煽情地激发出普通人对于科学的崇敬,严肃的态度给人以无限哲思。绝对开阔视野,若早七八年看过,说不定我会爱上物理学。
如果是一个科幻迷和纪录片爱好者,不看一定是一生的损失。如果不是科幻迷,不看就是巨大的损失……五星,没有疑问
每次看这种纪录片都觉得尘埃人类还要为自己的琐事烦恼,不值一提都不能形容了。
剧组好像特别有钱的感觉!
两个字:神作,要给我将来的儿子看,不看就打
一部伟大的剧,震撼无以描述
如果我是初中物理老师,一定在第一堂课上播一集这!为了能让更多孩子起根儿上决心学好物理!比如我!
希望我可以活到知道黑洞里到底是什么那一天
人类在浩瀚的宇宙面前渺小的连一枚细胞都不如... 这部系列纪录片拍得太好了... 非常适合拿来科普宇宙常识的人看...非常精彩
很棒,不仅仅是宇宙、天体物理学的科普,还包罗了量子力学、生物学、环境科学等等。然而更重要的是,本片有大量科学史的内容,以及科学精神的阐释,甚至以及德先生。宇宙,从最宏观到最微观,生命诞生进化的历程,以及我们了解这些知识的历程,在今天具有越来越重要的本体论意义。请选对你的"世界观"。
Neil讲述与Carl的师徒情谊的那段太感人了。。。
“也许你会说,知道这些有什么用呢?对我而言,这个问题取决于你想活在一个多大的宇宙中。”
28.9G
用一段跨越时间与空间的旅行深入浅出的介绍宇宙的概貌和人类的科学发展史,又蕴含着对于地球文明的关怀和历史的反思,传达科学的方法和态度,指引通向未来和真理的道路:质疑权威,独立思考,自我质疑,观察和实验,遵循证据。特效制作水平比大多数科幻片更震撼,科学知识的介绍更利于欣赏科幻片。
没看过的感觉很难做朋友
我觉得这片可以当做教科书
坑货一个,第一集开了个大头,以为接下来要探索宇宙了,结果剩下的11集全都是在地球上呆着,变成讲历史了,各种动画也是让人烦得受不了,这就是一部30分钟能讲完的宇宙纪录片硬生生砸钱加特效和动画改成了12集而已,华而不实,看了以后有一种被欺骗的感觉。
人类认识宇宙的过程,也是认识自我的过程。光年尺度下的叙事,让人类显得无足轻重,并不比一粒宇宙尘埃更有意义。但正是通过一代代科学家的不懈努力,才能使我们能够突破肉体的局限性,将人类的视野拓宽到目所能及之外的世界,或许有一天,直至宇宙的边缘。
才看了一集就飙泪两次。。。虽然讲的都是浅显的知识,但是这种上天入地在时间中穿梭的感觉,就是这么让人沉迷。。。对于大众和青少年来说,并不只是传授某种知识便足够,更重要的是将科学的精神埋在新一代的心中。。。科普不就应该是这样的吗?
卧槽这片子虽然内容比较浅显,但特效太棒了,制作的如此精良!解说词也很感人,当中穿插的动画也很有意思。颜值太高,令本宝宝颤抖了。。。