"I remember that one time Carl Sagan was……" — Ann Druyan
"I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful."
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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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Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting…
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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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