My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be interested and, you know, have they come here? Are they up there?

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.