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1 ) we are made of star stuff —— 那些令人感动的台词
01 Standing Up in the Milky Way
To make this journey, we'll need imagination. But imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine. This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules, test ideas by experiment and observation, build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence wherever it leads and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos is yours.
You, me, everyone... we are made of star stuff.
All of recorded history occupies only the last 14 seconds, and every person you've ever heard of lived somewhere in there. All those kings and battles, migrations and inventions, wars and loves, everything in the history books happened here, in the last seconds of the Cosmic Calendar.
Who was I back then? I was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist, and somehow the world's most famous astronomer found time to invite me to Ithaca, in upstate New York, and spend a Saturday with him. I remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bus stop and showed me his laboratory at Cornell University. Carl reached behind his desk and inscribed this book for me. "For Neil, a future astronomer. Carl." At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number on a scrap of paper and he said, "If the bus can't get through, call me and spend the night at my home with my family." I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon, I learned from Carl the kind of person I wanted to become. He reached out to me and to countless others, inspiring so many of us to study, teach and do science.
02 Some of the Things That Molecules Do
The awesome power of evolution transformed the ravenous wolf into the faithful shepherd, who protects the herd and drives the wolf away.
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.
03 When Knowledge Conquered Fear
Using nothing more than Newton's laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will merge with our neighboring galaxy Andromeda. Because the distances between the stars are so great compared to their sizes, few if any stars in either galaxy will actually collide. Any life on the worlds of that far-off future should be safe, but they would be treated to an amazing, billion-year-long light show… a dance of a half a trillion stars… to music first heard on one little world by a man who had but one true friend.
04 A Sky Full of Ghosts
-Father... do you believe in ghosts? -Why, yes, my son! -You, you do? I would not have thought so. -Oh, no, not in the human kind of ghost. No... not at all. But look up, my boy, and see a sky full of them. -The stars, father? I do not follow. -Every star is a sun as big, as bright as our own. Just imagine how far away from us you'd have to move the sun to make it appear as small and faint as a star. The light from the stars travels very fast, faster than anything, but not infinitely fast. It takes time for their light to reach us. For the nearest ones, it takes years. For others, centuries. Some stars are so far away, it takes eons for their light to get to Earth. By the time the light from some stars gets here, they are already dead. For those stars, we see only their ghosts. We see their light, but their bodies perished long, long ago. John, I have seen further back in time than any man before me -- millions of years into the past.
If you somehow survived the perilous journey across the event horizon, you'd be able to look back out and see the entire future history of the universe unfold before your eyes.
He broke through the walls of heaven.
The ones that still shine their light upon us long after they're gone.
05 Hiding in The Light
His spectral lines revealed that the visible cosmos is all made of the same elements. The planets... The stars... The galaxies... We, ourselves, and all of life... The same star stuff.
06 Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
Every one of them a unique phrase of life's poetry, written in the atoms by eons of evolution.
07 The Clean Room
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature will not be fooled.
08 Sisters of The Sun
I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to authority when I believed I was right. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.
The words of the powerful may prevail in other spheres of human experience, but in science, the only thing that counts is the evidence and the logic of the argument itself.
Will the beings of a distant future, sailing past this wreck of a star, have any idea of the life and worlds that it once warmed?
When a massive star dies, it blows itself to smithereens. Its substance is propelled across the vastness to be stirred by starlight and gathered up by gravity. Stars to dust and dust to stars. In the cosmos, nothing is wasted.
09 The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
Our sense of the stability of the Earth is an illusion due to the shortness of our lives.
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
All this beauty will have vanished and the Earth of our moment in time will take its place among the lost worlds. The great internal engine of plate tectonics is indifferent to life, as are the small changes in the Earth's orbit and tilt and the occasional collisions with little worlds on rogue orbits. These processes have no notion of what has been going on over billions of years on our planet's surface. They do not care.
10 The Electric Boy
Science is a harsh mistress.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
11 The Immortals
Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.
Space is so vast that it would take billions of years for a rock ejected from the Earth to collide with a planet circling another star.
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.
12 The World Set Free
There are no scientific or technological obstacles to protecting our world and the precious life that it supports. It all depends on what we truly value and if we can summon the will to act.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
13 Unafraid of the Dark
It was as if we had been standing on the seashore at night, mistakenly believing that the froth on the waves was all there was to the ocean.
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.
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.
Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves-- what difference does that make? Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you're willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That's fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of this into my heart and my mind, I'm uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it's real, that it's not just something happening inside my own head, because it matters what's true, and our imagination is nothing compared with Nature's awesome reality. I want to know what's in those dark places, and what happened before the Big Bang. I want to know what lies beyond the Cosmic Horizon, and how life began. Are there other places in the cosmos where matter and energy have become alive... and aware? I want to know my ancestors-- all of them. I want to be a good, strong link in the chain of generations. I want to protect my children and the children of ages to come. We, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we've begun to learn the story of our origins-- star stuff contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness. We and the other living things on this planet carry a legacy of cosmic evolution spanning billions of years. If we take that knowledge to heart, if we come to know and love Nature as it really is, then we will surely be remembered by our descendants as good, strong links in the chain of life. And our children will continue this sacred searching, seeing for us as we have seen for those who came before, discovering wonders yet undreamt of... in the cosmos.
2 ) 宇宙时空之旅——最有情怀的天文物理科普剧
此片制作精良，从自然科学角度也特别适合作为中小学生的启蒙之作。生物学、物理学、化学课的许多概念都可以完美呈现，而且极富趣味。
最后，以第13集收官之语来表达我滔滔不绝的敬意。花了接近半个小时才手打出这些字。字字精华。
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, live 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 father and mother, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of moral, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, live there...on the mote of dust suspended...in a sunbeam.
The earth is a every 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 so 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 this 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 know 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 the distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale dot, the only home we've ever know.
How did we, tiny creatures living on this 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 form the prion? It was the work of generates of searchers who took five simple rules to heart:
Question authority. No idea is true just because someone say so, including me. Think for yourself.
Question yourself. Don't believe in something 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, where ever it lead. If you have no evidence, reserve judgement.
And perhaps the most important rule of all...Remember you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about somethings. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in the history, they all made mistakes. Of course they did--they are human. Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves...and each other. Have scientists know sin? Of cause. We have misuse science, just as we have misuse 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. These values undermine the appeals of fanaticism and ignorance and, after all, the universe is mostly dark, dotted by islands of light.
3 ) 暗淡蓝点
我们成功地（从外太空）拍到这张照片，细心再看，你会看见一个小点。就是这里，就是我们的家，就是我们。在这点上每个你爱的人、每个你认识的人、每个你曾经听过的人，以及每个曾经存在的人，都在那里过完一生。 这里集合了一切的欢喜与苦难，数千个自信的宗教、意识形态以及经济学说，每个猎人和搜寻者、每个英雄和懦夫、每个文明的创造者与毁灭者、每个国王与农夫、每对相恋中的年轻爱侣、每个充满希望的孩子、每对父母、发明家和探险家，每个教授道德的老师、每个贪污政客、每个超级巨星、每个至高无上的领袖、每个人类历史上的圣人与罪人，都住在这里，一粒悬浮在阳光下的微尘。 在浩瀚的宇宙中，地球不过是一个很小的舞台，想想过去的血流成河，那些芸芸众生为帝王将相而流的血，只为让他们在光荣和胜利中成为瞬间的伟人，去占有那一个小点中的一小部分。想想那无尽的残酷，图像里那一个小点的某个角落的民众，每天把残酷施加到与他们没有区别的另一个角落的同胞身上，他们之间的误解如此频繁，他们多么渴望杀死对方，他们之间的憎恨又如此狂热。 我们在装模做样，我们自以为很重要，妄想着我们人类地位特殊，在宇宙中与众不同，这一切，都因这泛着苍白蓝光的小点而动摇。我们的星球，不过是一粒孤独的微尘，笼罩在伟大的宇宙黑暗之中。我们默默无闻，沉浸在无尽的浩瀚里，没有一丝线索显示，除了我们自己，没人能拯救我们。 地球是目前唯一有生命的星球，再无其他去处，至少在不久的将来亦是如此，没有外星球，供人类迁移，只可参观，不能定居。不管你喜欢与否，现在，只有地球供我们立足。 一直有人说天文学是令人谦卑，同时也是一种塑造性格的学问。对我来说，希望没有比这张从远处拍摄我们微小世界的照片更好的示范，去展示人类自负和愚蠢。对我来说，这强调了我们应该更加亲切和富同情心地去对待身边的每一个人，同时更加保护和珍惜这暗淡蓝点，这个我们目前所知唯一的家。
——奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森
4 ) 宇宙时空之旅（谬误与真像 注释与笔记）
第二集：物种起源：达尔文祖父祖父伊拉斯谟·达尔文是英国医学界权威，曾写有《生命学》、《植物学》等著作。伊拉斯谟认为有机体内有让生物向高级阶段发展的内在力量，并推测生命起源于海洋，对日后的达尔文产生了重要影响。在达尔文研究物种演化时，物种行为的无情性引伸出的社会意义，经常被非国教论者及无神论者视作攻击英国国教会的理论的手段。达尔文更认为宗教信仰其实是生物族群的生存策略，虽然此时他仍然相信神是最终的自然法则制定者。在1851年，他的女儿安尼逝世后，达尔文的信仰渐减，并倾向怀疑主义。这时虽然他仍继续协助进行一些教会事务，但已经不会在星期日上教会。他倾向相信痛苦是自然法则，多于神的试练。当他被问及他的宗教取向时，他指出他从来不是无神论，但不可知论是对他的心思更准确的描述。达尔文在自传里亦曾表示，福音书的真确性存疑，他也没有充足证据相信基督教是神的教义。
第三集：万有引力：哈雷出生于伦敦肖迪奇一个富有家庭，他的父亲来自德比郡，是一个富裕的肥皂制造商。1679年5月，他返回英国。他发表了包含341颗南天恒星的详细数据的《南天星表》，因为这份星表加上附属的星图，当选为英国皇家学会院士。爱德蒙·哈雷于1686年发表了关于他的第二篇论文，这篇论文的内容是信风和季雨。他确定了太阳的热能是大气层运动的动力，他还建立了气压与高度之间的关系。1693年，哈雷发表了一篇关于人寿保险的文章。他基于一个德国小城的完整数据纪录，来分析死亡年龄。约翰·格朗特随后推广了他的研究工作，该成就现在被视为人口学史上的一件大事。
1682年，爱德蒙·哈雷在伊斯林顿定居。在大多数时间里，他持续观察月球，并试图证明开普勒定律。1684年8月，他去剑桥与艾萨克·牛顿讨论这个问题，牛顿称已在一篇论文中解决了这个问题，但没有发表。哈雷要求看这篇论文，却找不到了。他说服牛顿再写一篇，于是牛顿用两年时间写成了自己最伟大的著作《自然哲学的数学原理》即万有引力，皇家学会最初承诺会付钱出版该书，但书写成之后反悔哈雷只好自己出钱出版该书。
第四集，相对论：相对论的产生主还有马赫定律与费曼几何，不止是法拉第的电磁场和麦克斯韦方程式 ，事实上广义相对论是对微积分 经典力学 电动力学 线性代数 微分几何的集大成者。
第五集：光的世界：有记录的小孔成像最早由墨子发现，伊斯兰教哈里发的包容保留了古希腊文化，为欧洲文艺复兴打下基础。最初牛顿通过三菱镜绘制色谱，而威廉赫歇尔在1800年通过用温度计测量太阳光谱的各个部分，结果发现，在将温度计放在光谱红端外测温时，温度上升得最高，而那儿却完全没有颜色。于是他得出结论：太阳光中包含着处于红光以外的不可见光线，即红外辐射。
威廉赫歇尔也被誉为“恒星天文学之父”，威廉·赫歇尔亦编制了一份详尽的“星云”列表，与及一份双星列表。他首先发现大部分双星并非貌合神离的光学双星，而是互相具引力关系的。从研究恒星的自行，他也首先发现太阳系正在宇宙中移动，还指出该移动的大致方向。还提出提出银河呈圆盘状。他的儿子，约翰·赫歇尔于1816年开始研究天文学，在1821年至1823年他与詹姆士·卲斯重新校验他父亲编制的双星星表。1833年，约翰·赫歇尔前往南非测量南天的恒星。两年后，他观测了哈雷彗星回归。约翰赫歇尔死后，英国对其进行了国葬。
约瑟夫·冯·夫琅和费又译作弗劳恩霍夫，德国物理学家，主要贡献集中在光学方面。夫琅和费11岁成为孤儿，在慕尼黑的一家玻璃作坊当学徒。1801年，这家作坊的房子崩塌了，巴伐利亚选帝侯马克西米利安一世亲自带人将其从废墟中救起。马克西米利安一世十分爱护夫琅和费，为其提供了书籍和学习的机会。8个月后，夫琅和费被送往著名的本讷迪克特伯伊昂修道院的光学学院接受训练，这所本笃会修道院十分重视玻璃制作工艺。到1818年，夫琅和费已经成为光学学院的主要领导。由于夫琅和费的努力，巴伐利亚取代英国成为当时光学仪器的制作中心，连迈克尔·法拉第也只能甘拜下风。现弗劳恩霍夫应用研究促进协会是德国也是欧洲最大的应用科学研究机构，成立于1949年3月26日，以德国科学家、发明家和企业家约瑟夫·弗劳恩霍夫的名字命名。弗劳恩霍夫协会下设80多个研究所，年经费10亿欧元，总部位于慕尼黑。
第六集：微观世界
水熊虫是动物界的缓步动物门，主要生活在淡水的沉渣、潮湿土壤以及苔藓植物的水膜中，少数种类生活在海水的潮间带。有记录的大约有750余种，其中许多种是世界性分布的。在喜马拉雅山脉（6000m以上）或深海（4000m以下）都可以找到它们的踪影。是第一种已知可以在太空中生存的动物。
光合作用（Photosynthesis）是植物、藻类等生产者和某些细菌，利用光能，将二氧化碳、水或是硫化氢转化为碳水化合物。光合作用可分为产氧光合作用和不产氧光合作用。通过食用，食物链的消费者可以吸收到植物所贮存的能量，效率为10%左右。对大多数生物来説，这个过程是他们赖以生存的关键。而地球上的碳氧循环，光合作用是其中最重要的一环。
光合作用公式
12H2O + 6CO2 +阳光→ (与叶绿素产生化学作用); C6H12O6 (葡萄糖) + 6O2 + 6H2O
第七集：地球年龄
克莱尔·卡梅伦·帕特森美，国地质学家和地球化学家，出生于美国艾奥瓦州米切尔维尔，芝加哥大学博士，在加州理工学院任教。帕特森与乔治·蒂尔顿合作，改进铀铅测年法，发明了铅铅测年法。通过测定代亚布罗峡谷陨石中铅的同位素的含量，他在1956计算出地球的年龄约为45.5±0.7亿年，该测量精度至今无人能及。帕特森早在1940年代还是芝加哥大学研究生的时候就发现自己的样品受到铅污染，后来研究地球年龄的过程中他发现铅工业是大气和人体内的铅含量急剧上升的原因。他的努力和呼吁在禁用四乙基铅和食品罐头铅焊料的运动中贡献巨大。因为以上的贡献，他被称为20世纪影响最大的地质学家。
第八集 宇宙星空
安妮·坎农1863年出生于美国特拉华州的多佛市，父亲是一位富有的造船师。恩，又是一个富二代，坎农1880年进入马萨诸塞州的威尔斯利学院学习物理学，在那里她感染上了猩红热，几乎完全丧失了听力。1900年代，坎农以恒星的颜色为依据，根据恒星的表面温度从高到低的顺序，将爱德华·皮克林等人早期建立的光谱分类法改造为划分O、B、A、F、G、K、M、R、N、S等类型的分类法，称为“哈佛分类法”，在天文学上广泛使用。1925年，坎农获得了英国牛津大学颁发的荣誉博士学位，是首位获此殊荣的女性。1931年，坎农因为在恒星光谱分类方面的工作获得美国科学院颁发的亨利·德雷伯奖章。为纪念她，月球上的一座环形山以她的名字命名为“坎农”。
塞西莉亚·佩恩-加波施1900年在英国白金汉郡文多尔出生，她就读于圣保罗女子学校，接着于1919年获得奖学金进入剑桥大学纽纳姆学院学习物理学、化学和植物学。后来因为她听了亚瑟·爱丁顿讲述他到非洲拍摄日全食照片中太阳旁两颗星的位置以确定阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的广义相对论演讲，激起对天文的兴趣。并于1925年首次提出太阳主要由氢所组成。塞西莉亚进入哈佛大学天文台是一个重要的转折点，在沙普利主持之下，该天文台提供给女性更多机会研究天文，并大大激励了许多女性进入了当时以男性为主的科学社群。
第九集：蓝色星球
玛丽·萨普（英语：Marie Tharp，1920年7月30日－2006年8月23日），美国女性地质学家、海洋学家。她与布鲁斯·希森合作绘制了世界上第一幅科学性的全球海底地形图。萨普的研究让大众得以知道大西洋中洋脊的存在，并彻底改变了大众对大陆漂移学说的科学认知。
1948年时萨普迁往纽约市，并且她被哥伦比亚大学的莫里斯·尤因雇用而进入拉蒙特地质实验室担任制图师[1]。之后她认识了布鲁斯·希森，并且早期任务是以摄影资料寻找第二次世界大战期间被击落的军用飞机[2]。之后，萨普和希森开始一起绘制海底地形图。绘制海底地形图的前18年中，希森登上拉蒙特－多赫提地球观测所所属研究船维马号收集海底地形资料。而萨普在那个女性当时不能上船工作的时代则在办公室内绘制地形图。萨普早期的研究成果因为其性别因素而被限制，并且她直到1965年才得以加入资料收集的研究船航行。她并且独立使用来自伍兹霍尔海洋研究所研究船亚特兰提斯号研究船和地震仪侦测震中在海面下地震的资料进行研究。最后她和希森共同试图系统性地绘出首幅全世界的海底地形图。
第十集 电子娇子：法拉第出生于英国伦敦纽因顿区，由于家境贫穷或不适合教育？14岁时，他成为书本装订商及销售人乔治·雷伯的门生。并由此读过大量书籍，在这些大量的阅读之中，法拉第渐渐树立起对科学的兴趣，这其中，又以电学为甚。
1812年，时龄二十岁，随着门生生涯走入尾声，法拉第开始旁听由赫赫有名的皇家研究机构的一员以及英国皇家学会会长汉弗里·戴维爵士以及市立哲学协会的创始者约翰·塔特姆所开的演讲。之后有一次，法拉第将自己在演讲中细心抄录，并旁征博引，内容达三百页的笔记拿给戴维过目，戴维立刻给予他相当友善且正面的答复。也因此，戴维在一次三氯化氮实验中发生意外，视力受损之后，便雇用了法拉第作为他的秘书。戴维在1813年3月1日推荐法拉第成为化学助理。
在当时的阶级分明的英国社会中，出身卑微的法拉第并不被认同为一个绅士。戴维的妻子珍·亚普莉丝亦不愿意平等对待法拉第，旅行时要他坐在马车外，与佣人一起吃饭，法拉第的处境越来越凄惨，甚至开始考虑独自回到英国放弃科学研究。不过这次旅行，也让他接触了欧洲许多的科学菁英，刺激出他许多想法。
虽然没有得到足够的正式教育，法拉第是历史上最具有影响力的科学家之一。实际而言，他时常被认为是科学史上最优秀的实验家。他详细地研究在载流导线四周的磁场，想出了磁场线的点子，因此建立了电磁场的概念。法拉第观察到磁场会影响光线的传播，他找出了两者之间的关系。他发现了电磁感应的原理、抗磁性、法拉第电解定律。他发明了一种电磁旋转机器，这就是今天电动机的雏型。由于法拉第的努力，电磁现象开始出现于具有实际用途的科技发展。 法拉第在化学上也颇有建树，他发现了苯，研究氯晶笼化合物，发明了本生灯的早期形式及氧化数，同时也推广了阳极、阴极、电极及离子等术语。他最终当上了第一位也是最重要的大英皇家科学研究所的富勒化学教授。
值得注意的是，法拉第尽管于49岁开始就备受失忆症与抑郁症的困扰，却仍然发现了如法拉第效应、遮蔽效应等现象，法拉第对光学镜片的研究亦没有什么成就，论兴趣与合适的人在合适的职位的重要性。
法拉第是一位优秀的实验家，能够用清楚与简单的语言传达思想，但其数学能力只限于最简单的代数，对其它更高阶的数学像是三角学并不熟悉。富二代詹姆斯·麦克斯韦（恩，你没看错，科学史可以说是一部富二代史）综合了法拉第与其它学者的研究，写下了麦克斯韦方程，成为现代电磁理论的基石。为了纪念法拉第，在国际单位制里，电容的单位是法拉。法拉第主要的贡献为电磁感应、抗磁性、电解。
第十一集：科学探索：能让自己的行为适应环境的变化，是人类智慧的体现，如果说高级的智慧是我们物种的标志，那我就该好好的利用他，其他物种都在利用它们独特的优势，来让自己的后代繁荣昌盛，让他们的遗传得以继续，这是自然界的基本体系，维系着人类的生存。————值得注意的是由于人类经济的高速发展，育儿费用提高、生产生活节奏的加快、生活压力加大，再加上女性经济的独立等等因素，造成生育率不断下降，人口老龄化将是21世纪全球人口趋势的突出表现之一。目前，世界主要经济体，除了美国能保持人口平衡以外，其他主要国家，人口皆为负增长态势。亨廷顿《文明的冲突》对人口的增长与比率对文明的影响，提出一些阐释，阿拉伯与基督教甚至与儒教文明相互之争，远远没有结束。
第十二集：气候变化：京都议定书？雾霾？柴火鸡？北极臭氧层，展开完全可以作一个专题了。
第十三集：走向未来：
By Carl Sagan
Look again at that 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 selfimportance, 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 characterbuilding experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. 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.
5 ) As Above, So Below.
说的真好！
6 ) Pale Blue Dot
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
(由旅行者1号于1990年2月14日在距离地球60亿英里处拍摄，拍摄完照片后，旅行者1号驶离太阳系，踏上寻找其它文明的漫漫征途。在照片中的地球，只有一个像素点大小。)
第13集临近结尾Neil deGrasse Tyson引用卡尔萨根关于地球——the “Pale Blue Dot”——解说词。
Carl Sagan titled his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space after the photograph. In it, he expresses his thoughts on a deeper meaning of the image:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that 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 of our tiny world. 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: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
希望我可以活到知道黑洞里到底是什么那一天
剧组好像特别有钱的感觉！
没看过的感觉很难做朋友
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。
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。
“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。”
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。
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。
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
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
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。。。
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？
两个字：神作，要给我将来的儿子看，不看就打
Neil讲述与Carl的师徒情谊的那段太感人了。。。
我觉得这片可以当做教科书
28.9G
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！
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。
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"。
一部伟大的剧，震撼无以描述