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.

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.

Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.