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Ann Druyan (/ˈdriːæn/ DREE-ann; born June 13, 1949) is an American writer and producer specializing in the communication of science. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. She is the creator, producer, and writer of the 2014 sequel, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

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I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.

Create, Dream, Hopeful, Kids, Leadership

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

Beings, Capacity, Greater, Human, Humans, Might

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

Atheism, Believe, Carl, Fear, Know

As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

Lying, Powerful, Science, Technology

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.

Mass Destruction, Military, Perversion, Production, World

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Enough, Good, Good Enough, Heart

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Considered, Enlightenment, Sacred, Single, Step, Steps

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.

Central, Spiritual, Tragedy, True, Uplifting, Wonderful

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

Basis, Decision, Dependent, Technology, Thinking, Workings

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.

Knowledge, Math, Training, Years

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

Definitive, Home, Implications, Sorry, Think, Thinking

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

Ability, Cold, Moving, Organization, People, Social

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

Asks, Empowerment, Knowing, Practitioners, Profound

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 thats completely opposite of the truth.

Giving Up, Life, Passion, Sense, Thinking, Truth

We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.

Cosmos, Existence, Future, Intelligent, Kind, Loneliness

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Helpless, Patterns, Spirit, Storm, Understand, Works

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

Deception, Deny, Gratification, Science

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

Everything, Extent, Important, Science, Senses

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

Grandeur, Posited, Religion, Science, Universe

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

Death, Husband, Ideas, Lived, Someday, Way

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