I recently watched a BBC America special by David Attenborough titled Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life. It was excellent. I’m familiar with Attenborough. Any fan of science probably is. However, I’ve had limited exposure to the man. He isn’t as popular in America as he is across the Pond as far as I can tell. At the very least, he isn’t promoted much on most of the science shows and networks I watch. I’ve been missing out. He has a passion about him that is as strong as the passion that was within Carl Sagan. I was especially struck by an absolutely beautiful segment in the show which broadly walked through the history of life. The video description says it will make one feel insignificant. It should. At the same time, though, it shows a grandness in Life, and that’s something of which we are all apart.
For the Sake of Science 