We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

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.

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival.

Before every great reward, comes the footprints of persistency, consistency, perseverance, courage, faith and patience.

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.