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

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.

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.

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.

Five syllables, " Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.

Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

[Iran agreement] is one of the worst agreements I've ever seen drawn by anybody.

Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can

I want to feel that I own things.