“I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.” WayBelieveHumansLongIdeasFactsStoriesTogetherI BelieveTaughtLong TimeScientistShameSpeciesDrivenConclusionNarrativeHuman Experience Author:Ann Druyan
“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.” WayGivingRealityUniversePowerfulAcceptingSubjectsHumilityRevolutionToolsAbsolutesMethodAccomplishFearlessDeceptionPermanentMost PowerfulScientific MethodRevisionAbsolute TruthApproximation Author:Ann Druyan
“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.” WayImportantIdeasCareDeathHusbandTreatedOur FamilySomeday Author:Ann Druyan
“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 life sweeter in every possible way.” WayMadeWineDinnerSacramentsAmerican Family 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
