Evgeni Ku

“So, I think the bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly—like looking through a six-inch telescope. If sensing the numinous is at the heart of religion, who’s more religious would you say—the people who follow the bureaucratic religions or the people who teach themselves science?”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“I have only one regret,” he had said in his gravelly voice. “My daughter married a Bulgarian.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Indeed, as we have seen, the drama and tragedy of the moral life lies in the fact that most human disagreement is between opposing goods rather than between right and wrong.”
― Richard Holloway, Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics