One of the fascinating aspects of science is that the more we learn, the more we discover there is to be learned. Led by curiosity and our desire to understand, we investigate the wonders of the universe, only to find it more wondrous than we imagined.

Human nature being as it is, much of what we learn we turn inward as well as outward, giving us a clearer picture of our place in it all. Few have been better at sharing with the public such a cosmic perspective than Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking.

This week’s Friday Night Movie features a remarkable, artistic tribute to Sagan and Hawking by musician John Boswell. To hear more of Boswell’s work, visit colorpulse.com or his youtube page.

The lyrics, borrowed from Sagan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe series, appear beneath the video.

Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix)

Lyrics

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting