Ann Druyan
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Genre
Influences
Carl Sagan, Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich Anton Paul von Däniken
Member Since
November 2019
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
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1980
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Cosmos: Possible Worlds
21 editions
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2019
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National Geographic Kozmos Dünyada Akilli Yasam
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National Geographic Kozmos Yildizlara Uzanan Merdiven
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A famous broken heart: A fantasy novel
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1977
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Passport to the Universe
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2006
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National Geographic Kozmos İnsanlığın Olgunluk Çağı
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Cosmos 2
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الكون: عوالم محتملة
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الكون: عوالم محتملة
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
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“Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”
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