First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.