11 quotes
The vastness of the universe-and love, the thing that makes the vastness bearable-is out of reach to the arrogant.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
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: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.
Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads. And question everything. Including authority.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
The Pale Blue Dot (photograph) is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluter-to anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
Carl made me want to be the best human being I could be.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
Science has nothing in common with fundamentalism or with superstition, but it has a lot in common with that desire to understand where we came from and who we are.
Interview with Charlie Rose (1997)
When we fell in love, it was like discovering a new world. It was one that I had hoped was possible but had never been to before.
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness.
We have the means to get through these terrible troubles, but we have to get our act together,” Druyan insists. “And one of the ways, in my view, is to spread the knowledge of science and high technology to the widest possible public once again.”
Interview (2020)
At the heart of science is this tremendous regard for nature and reality
Interview with Astronomy Magazine (2020)
The words Einstein chose to open the 1939 World's Fair echo in my brain: "If science, like art, is to perform its mission truly and fully, its achievements must enter not only superficially but with their inner meaning into the consciousness of the people."
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)