I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.