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.
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.
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.