In The 1970s, I Think That There

We Are Living In A Society That Is Totally Dependent On Science And High Technology, And Yet Most Of Us Are Effectively Alienated And Excluded From Its Workings, From The Values Of Science, The Methods Of Science, And The Language Of Science. A Good Place To Start Would Be For As Many Of Us As Possible To Begin To Understand The Decision-making And The Basis For Those Decisions, And To Act Independently And Not Be Manipulated Into Thinking One Thing Or Another, But To Learn How To Think. That's What Science Does.

Interviewer: "didn't [sagan] Want To Believe?" Druyan: "he Didn't Want To Believe. He Wanted To Know.

Well, 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.

For Most Of The History Of Our Species We Were Helpless To Understand How Nature Works. We Took Every Storm, Drought, Illness And Comet Personally. We Created Myths And Spirits In An Attempt To Explain The Patterns Of Nature.

I Don't Have Any Faith, But I Have A Lot Of Hope, And I Have A Lot Of Dreams Of What We Could Do With Our Intelligence If We Had The Will And The Leadership And The Understanding Of How We Could Take All Of Our Intelligence And Our Resources And Create A World For Our Kids That Is Hopeful.