“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.” IfsSacredTrainSkeptic Author: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.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingRomanceJoyPassionGiving UpDiscoveryOppositesScientistGreat Romance Author: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.” IfsWorldDreamKidsUnderstandingResourcesHopeful Author:Ann Druyan
“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 demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.” IfsMenWayGivingBelieveKindChildrenSaidEndsRememberYoungTurnsLeftTakenTaughtTheoryReturnMeaningfulYoung ManAspirationOne TimeSuccessionUntrueWitheringSaganDemotion Author:Ann Druyan
“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.” IfsThinkingI CanHomeSeemsWould BeUniversePlanetsShapesSorryProofComing BackImplicationsBack HomeExtraterrestrialExtraterrestrial Life Author:Ann Druyan
