There are a great many people I admire immensely. Some for their erudition, some for their immense contribution to the human condition, some for their enormous contribution to our understanding of the human condition, and some for their extraordinary ability to explain the great ideas of this world we live in. Thanks to the wonders of modern technologies, we are fortunate to be able to make their acquaintance even though some of them are no longer with us.
Dr Jacob Bronowski (1908 – 1974) was a great soul, a mahatma in the true meaning of the word. Here’s Michael Parkinson of the BBC interviewing Dr Bronowski in 1972. Watch, or listen, to this and you’ll know why I admire him.
Just by the way, I often download the audio from videos of lectures, debates, interviews and so on. That way I can upload it to my phone and can listen to it at my convenience. I use and recommend 4kdownload.com (free) for downloading videos and for extracting just the audio from videos.
Life is a Random Draw 