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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."

— 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.

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.

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