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. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth. - Ann Druyan
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
- Ann Druyan
Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, an… - Ann Druyan
Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, an…
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know. - Ann Druyan
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
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, for a couple of moment… - Ann Druyan
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, for a couple of moment…
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: t… - 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: t…
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 the most important species… - Ann Druyan
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 the most important species…
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough. - Ann Druyan
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? - Ann Druyan
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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 our intelligence if we had the will and the lea… - Ann Druyan
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 our intelligence if we had the will and the lea…
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