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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

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

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

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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

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

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

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

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

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However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
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.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
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.
Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.
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.
Death is the ultimate disappointment
gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.
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.
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.
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
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.
Feeling better is not actually being better.
The market for nonsense is infinite.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.
Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.