I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

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

[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.

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.

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.

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