Ann Druyan Quotes

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• Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
• The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived.…
• Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it…
• We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
• By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human…
• The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.
• People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance…
• I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with…
• 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:…
• 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…
• We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great…
• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that…
• 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…
• Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's…
• All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving…
• This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and…
• A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are…
• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.…
• I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent…

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