Explore Quotes by James Randi

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

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

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

The market for nonsense is infinite.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

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.

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

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 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.

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

Death is the ultimate disappointment