James Randi Quotes

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 will ever get.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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 different costumes.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

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 of communicating.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

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.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

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 the forehead.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

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 examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

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 be popular.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

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.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

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 badly. But he never let them down.

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.