... still amazes!!

Ladies and Gents,

Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience:
A Personal View of the Search for God

by Carl Sagan, edited by Ann Druyan

Here and Here

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists?
Through a natural process of evolution, and an artificial course of culture, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on Earth, the only home we have ever known.
The realization that we exist together for a narrow slice of time and a limited parsec of space, potentially elevates us all to a higher plane of humility and humanity, a provisional proscenium in the drama of the cosmos.

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I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed. I think this search does not lead to a complacent satisfaction that we know the answer, not an arrogant sense that the answer is before us and we need do only one more experiment to find it out. It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.