And What Greater Might Do We Possess

It Is A Great Tragedy That Science, This Wonderful Process For Finding Out What Is True, Has Ceded The Spiritual Uplift Of Its Central Revelations: The Vastness Of The Universe, The Immensity Of Time, The Relatedness Of All Life, And Life's Preciousness On Our Tiny Planet.

I Remember That One Time Carl Sagan Was Giving A Talk, And He Spelled Out, In A Kind Of Withering Succession, These Great Theories Of Demotion That Science Has Dealt Us, All Of The Ways In Which Science Is Telling Us We Are Not Who We Would Like To Believe We Are. At The End Of It, A Young Man Came Up To Him And He Said: "what Do You Give Us In Return? Now That You've Taken Everything From Us? What Meaning Is Left, If Everything That I've Been Taught Since I Was A Child Turns Out To Be Untrue?" Carl Looked At Him And Said, Do Something Meaningful.

The Way He Treated Me & The Way I Treated Him, The Way We Took Care Of Each Other & Our Family, While He Lived. That Is So Much More Important Than The Idea I Will See Him Someday.

And What Greater Might Do We Possess As Human Beings Than Our Capacity To Question And To Learn?

My Knowledge Of Science Came From Being With Carl, Not From Formal Academic Training. Carl Gave Me A Thrilling Tutorial In Science And Math That Lasted The 20 Years We Were Together.