We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

[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.

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

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.

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