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

#appreciation #carl-sagan #life #loss #love

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#astronomy #atheism #carl-sagan #science #science

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #inspirational #science #theology #thought-provoking

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

#positivism #sagan #science #skepticism #theology

In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl #first #i #i am #met

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, the supreme expression of creation. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#center #creation #earth #ego #expression

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 that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#discovery #give #great #i #joy

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

#being #came #carl #formal #gave

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 was a perversion of science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#campaigned #carl #complex #destruction #end

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#everything #extent #important #learned #me