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Quotes from Cosmos: Possible Worlds — Ann Druyan

born 1949 United States

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ann Druyan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.