"It is a great tragedy that science, this……" — Ann Druyan
"It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet."
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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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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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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering…
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