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

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.

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.