No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

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

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

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

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