A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a world that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom, eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard-nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human life. And, to me, science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic fantasy. It's a good world -- not perfect -- but it's ours. So we'd better learn to live with it, the way it is.

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

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

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

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

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.

Death is the ultimate disappointment