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WT Sharpe · 09-17-2010, 10:10 AM

.....[H]e [Carl Sagan] never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.
..........— Ann Druyan (1949 - ), American author, producer, widow of Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996). From the Preface of The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) by Carl Sagan. The book consists of Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology and is edited by Druyan. In religious matters, Druyan is an agnostic, as was her late husband.

09-17-2010, 10:10 AM	#670
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....[H]e [Carl Sagan] never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe. ..........— Ann Druyan (1949 - ), American author, producer, widow of Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996). From the Preface of *The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God* (2006) by Carl Sagan. The book consists of Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology and is edited by Druyan. In religious matters, Druyan is an agnostic, as was her late husband.