"Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there……" — Ann Druyan
"Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever."
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29 Quotes by Ann Druyan
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Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
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The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other &…
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Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of…
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We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
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By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question…
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The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.
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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that…
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I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of…
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It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual…
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We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was…
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My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial…
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering…
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