74 Quotes by James Randi

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    Of the hundreds of those we've tested over the past few years probably 85 percent were dowsers,

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    This costs R275 per person, and besides the nonsense, you get tea, coffee and notes'. You're asked to bring a packed lunch'. Alka-Seltzer apparently not supplied . . .

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    They wanted it to happen. And in every major challenge that came along, they attended that theater not to see him fail, or even possibly fail.

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    If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.

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

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

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

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    Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

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    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.

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