James Randi Quotes

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• Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
• Feeling better is not actually being better.
• I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to…
• I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.
• I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.
• Death is the ultimate disappointment
• A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on…
• I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have…
• Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone…
• I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
• The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly…
• One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable…
• The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and…
• Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.
• I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
• They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel…
• However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
• Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you…
• Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

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