Interviewer: "didn't [sagan] Want To Believe?" Druyan:

Science Has The Cold Facts, But Lacks Religion's Social Organization And Ability To Inspire That Moves People To Act.

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.

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.

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.

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.