74 Quotes by James Randi



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    I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.

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    I don't doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after we've demonstrated that they can't produce results that are any better than chance they'll still go away believing in their abilities, ... It is like the mother whose son is caught shoplifting on tape. She wonders why someone would want to frame her child by producing a fake video.

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    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.

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    The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

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    Curley - and others - are going to discover that this old chap has a lot of fight in him, and that I've never yet backed down from a fight.

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    Far from being a curse, it might be lucky to disturb a pharaoh's tomb. These people beat the life span expectation for those days by about a year.

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    The second class of people that I examined in those 104 people, were people who still had the diseases of which they said they'd been healed.

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