22 Quotes by Raymond Smullyan

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I’ve sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I’m learning the second half of the trick now.

It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn’t it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn’t. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn’t.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.