I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.

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.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.