Quotes by James Randi

About James Randi:

James Randi is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). He began his career as a magician named The Amazing Randi, but after retiring at age 60, he chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo".
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The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

James Randi

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

James Randi

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.

James Randi

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

James Randi

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

James Randi

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.

James Randi

Feeling better is not actually being better.

James Randi

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

James Randi

I would put my million dollars up as well.

James Randi

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

James Randi

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

James Randi

I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

James Randi

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I'm unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because I'm locked into a world-view that demands...

James Randi

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

James Randi

Author Bio

  • NameJames Randi
  • DescriptionCanadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic
  • AliasesRandall James Hamilton Zwinge; The Amazing Randi
  • BornAugust 7, 1928
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMagician
  • AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program; Richard Dawkins Award