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Myths, Whether In Written Or Visual Form, Serve A Vital Role Of Asking Unanswerable Questions And Providing Unquestionable Answers. Most Of Us, Most Of The Time, Have A Low Tolerance For Ambiguity And Uncertainty. We Want To Reduce The Cognitive Dissonance Of Not Knowing By Filling The Gaps With Answers. Traditionally, Religious Myths Have Served That Role, But Today — The Age Of Science — Science Fiction Is Our Mythology.

We Think Of Our Eyes As Video Cameras And Our Brains As Blank Tapes To Be Filled With Sensory Inputs.

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?

Science Is The Best Tool Ever Devised For Understanding How The World Works.

I’m A Skeptic Not Because I Do Not Want To Believe, But Because I Want To Know. How Can We Tell The Difference Between What We Would Like To Be True And What Is Actually True? The Answer Is Science.