Lawrence Krauss Discussion (10/12) - Richard Dawkins
See more at http://RichardDawkins.net Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss sat down for a public discussion at Stanford University on Sunday, March 9th ...
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[Dawkins] -It, as you say, it'd cost an enormous amount of money and, uh, there've been three major series that I can think of. One is Carl Sagan's Cosmos, one is…well, David Attenborough's entire corpus which is, which is unparalleled. And the other is- [Krauss] -Jacob Bronowski [Dawkins] -Jacob Bronowski and The Assent of Man, um, and it doesn't look as though the big television companies are putting money into these sort of epic scale science programs now. [Krauss] -It's just impossible now that the money- the cost has become, so great I… Cosmos would never be produced today, I think. And it's just a- it's sad that the costs have escalated. And uh- but they're great I agree. I mean Bronowski's series to me is just- and if you compare and i...
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[Dawkins] -It, as you say, it'd cost an enormous amount of money and, uh, there've been three major series that I can think of. One is Carl Sagan's Cosmos, one is…well, David Attenborough's entire corpus which is, which is unparalleled. And the other is- [Krauss] -Jacob Bronowski [Dawkins] -Jacob Bronowski and The Assent of Man, um, and it doesn't look as though the big television companies are putting money into these sort of epic scale science programs now. [Krauss] -It's just impossible now that the money- the cost has become, so great I… Cosmos would never be produced today, I think. And it's just a- it's sad that the costs have escalated. And uh- but they're great I agree. I mean Bronowski's series to me is just- and if you compare and i...
