[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.

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

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

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.

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.

There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.