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

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

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

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

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

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.

Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.

Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.