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

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

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

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.

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

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

I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.