"Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights intellectually while we cling to a spiritual ideology that is not only rootless in nature but also, in many ways, contemptuous of what is natural."

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About Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan is an American author, producer, and science communicator known for co-writing and producing Cosmos with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter. She served as creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message project and has produced multiple Cosmos sequel series. Her work focuses on public understanding of science and humanistic inquiry.

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