Well, I actually grew up in ...

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.
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.
 Ann Druyan

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Never complain and never explain.
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
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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.
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 Ann Druyan
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.
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 Ann Druyan