It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
Ann DruyanInterviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann DruyanAll of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Ann DruyanWell, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
Ann Druyan