I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.

They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.