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No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred only the search was.
Ann Druyan
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Ann Druyan
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 13
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The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.
Ann Druyan
Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.
Ann Druyan
As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
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 leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
Ann Druyan
The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.
Ann Druyan
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
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 moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Ann Druyan
Interviewer: Didn't [Sagan] want to believe? Druyan: He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
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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 thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
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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 every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
Ann Druyan
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.
Ann Druyan
We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.
Ann Druyan
The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
Ann Druyan
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann Druyan
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.
Ann Druyan
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
Ann Druyan
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 remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
Ann Druyan
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 of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
Ann Druyan
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 lasted the 20 years we were together.
Ann Druyan
