James Randi Quotes, Thoughts and Images

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

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

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

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 amount of belief makes something a fact.

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

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

The market for nonsense is infinite.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

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

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

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Death is the ultimate disappointment

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.

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

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

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

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.