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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.

— Ann Druyan Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)

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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)

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.

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)

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