All Ann Druyan Quotes
- Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know. Atheism
- The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived.… Care
- 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… Campaigned
- We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. Batter
- 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… Any
- The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited. Any
- 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… Completely
- 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… All
- 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:… All
- 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… Afterlife
- 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… American
- 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… Academic
- 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… All
- 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… Actually Grew
- All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. All
- 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… Children
- 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… Back Home
- 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… Believe
- 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.… Attempt
- 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… Alienated
- And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? Beings
- If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. Fears
- No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was. Considered
- The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… Ambiguity
- Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness,… Couple