Quotes by James Randi

“If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then hes doing it the hard way.”

“Diana Cooper School of Angels & Ascension.”

“Of the hundreds of those weve tested over the past few years probably 85 percent were dowsers,”

“I dont doubt the sincerity of dowsers, but even after weve demonstrated that they cant produce results that are any better than chance theyll 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.”

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

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

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Yes, Im a materialist. Im willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason Im unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because Im locked into a world-view that demands evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments — particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world — and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments.

A quick example of that is a woman who said shed been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.