- Johnny Carson: Canadian scientists have found that when they fed laboratory rats large amounts of ice, the rats developed hockey pucks.
- Mary Smith: That's why it's nice not to have television. You become babysitter to your own children. You talk to them. Uh, I made the statement a little while ago, that when your husband's mad at you, you find out about it the same day. When you have television, sometimes it's a couple of weeks before he gets around to tellin' you about it.
- Johnny Carson: [interviewing an audience member from Essex, California - population 63] You teach grades what, now?
- Altys Stevens: Kindergarten through eighth.
- Johnny Carson: All in one room?
- Altys Stevens: All in one room.
- Johnny Carson: At the same time?
- Altys Stevens: At the same time.
- Johnny Carson: Now, a lot of people probably wonder how that works. Tell 'em a little bit about it.
- Altys Stevens: It doesn't work.
- Carl Sagan: There's at least hundreds of cases of people who claim to have been on board the UFO, or whatever it is. Not one of them ever succeeded in, you know, stealing the captain's log or something.
- Carl Sagan: Without ignorance, it would be very difficult to advance the frontier of knowledge, and I - I certainly think that's right. I don't think we ought to worship ignorance; I think we ought to, uh, look at it as, uh, something to be - a necessary evil to be minimized.
- Carl Sagan: If we're receiving a message from some other fellas a few hundred light years away, uh, we're not required to answer any message and, uh, there's no way for them to know we've received the message. So in that sense, if you're worried about being made a pet of or... eaten, uh... it's safe.