She was married to him from '81 until his death in
'96, over fifteen years. She was his "Annie". And
here are some of the goddess Annie's quotes...
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ann_druyan.html
My favorite? --
"Let the people who deplore scientism demonstrate
another methodology that delivers the goods the
way that science does."
That's pretty much what i believe also. Yes, i do
come down hard on science sometimes, but there
are two things about science that i don't like...
1) I don't like how scientists can be arrogant about
certain things, especially in light of how arrogance
in science has a history of being embarrassed by
new discoveries, and
2) Like Carl and Annie, i feel disgusted and helpless
by how science is often perverted to make weapons
of violence and mass destruction.
Carl Sagan believed that one possible reason for the
Fermi paradox...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox)
....was that technical civilizations may possess a
tendency to destroy themselves. Isn't there
something we can learn from this?
Or is our destruction, our extinction, is it just an
unchangeable and foregone conclusion? What do
*you* think?
And what role can astronomy play to reverse our
tendency to destroy ourselves? (If indeed such a
tendency does exist and *can* be reversed.)
happy days and...
starry starry nights!
--
Indelibly yours,
Paine Ellsworth
P.S.: Thank *YOU* for reading!
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