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Yeah, we're cool, we up my head, they were quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 118. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh. The key to why things change is the key to everything. This is the voice of legendary science historian James Burke,

and this is part of his closing statement in his documentary series, Connections,

which over the course of its 10 episodes, completely rearranged how he looked

at history, science, technology, communication, and change.

Today, the people who make things change, the people who have that

knowledge are the scientists and the technologists who are the true driving force of humanity. And before you say, what about the

Beethoven's and the Michelangelo's? Let me suggest something with which you may

disagree violently, that at best the products of human emotion, art, philosophy,

politics, music, literature, are interpretations of the world.

They're telling you more about the guy who's talking

than about the world he's talking about.

Second-hand views of the world,

made third-hand by your interpretation of them.

At this point in the conclusion of the entire series, James Burke holds up a photograph of

amino acids.

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