Top 73 Randi Quotes
#1. Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.
James Randi
#2. Holy hotness," Randi whispered loudly. "They make this event look like a hot male model convention instead of a wedding.
J.S. Scott
#3. I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.
Henry Rollins
#5. 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.
James Randi
#6. I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').
Randi Minetor
#7. Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
James Randi
#8. The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
James Randi
#9. To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
James Randi
#10. If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.
Randi Rhodes
#11. 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
#12. I believe that earth-shattering love exists and when you find it, it will move your soul like nothing else.
Randi Cooley Wilson
#13. Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
James Randi
#14. I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.
James Randi
#15. The only way you're going to be successful is if you admit what you don't know and you ask for help.
Randi Zuckerberg
#16. However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
James Randi
#18. If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.
Randi Weingarten
#19. There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
James Randi
#20. 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
#21. Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.
James Randi
#22. We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
Randi Weingarten
#23. 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.
James Randi
#24. 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
#25. We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
James Randi
#26. I would put my million dollars up as well.
James Randi
#27. [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.
James Randi
#28. It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over time it can erode your self-esteem and poison the relationship. Seek support immediately.
Randi Kreger
#29. Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgiving culture that doesn't really ever see childbearing for female employees as convenient?
Randi Hutter Epstein
#30. You wanted a family. It doesn't get much more typical than an eccentric cougar sexually assaulting a hot, yet quirky uncle at a family gathering,
Randi Cooley Wilson
#31. 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.
James Randi
#32. Winning her heart again meant more than any championship.
Randi Everheart
#33. It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
Randi Rhodes
#34. So are you going to tell me why you're running around my home at midnight and yelling my name? Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered it's my name you're screaming, it's just now how I imagined you doing it" Asher
Randi Cooley Wilson
#35. I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.
James Randi
#37. There are moments in life when everything changes. Sometimes these moments come out of nowhere, ambushing you. Sometimes they approach from a distance and arrive so slowly and expectedly that change is nothing to be surprised about.
Randi Zuckerberg
#38. 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
#39. Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
Randi Weingarten
#40. Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
James Randi
#41. 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
#42. I'm not a religious man, but I do worship your ass.
Randi Black
#43. 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.
James Randi
#44. 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
#45. Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like
Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.
#46. No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.
James Randi
#47. Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.
James Randi
#48. the behavior of parents, other parties, or both. Also, old videos or photos may be helpful in showing how comfortable and happy the children are with you as a parent, to counteract allegations that the children were always afraid of you. Submitting the Evidence to the Court
Randi Kreger
#49. We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.
James Randi
#50. I slide down and sit on the shower floor and just let the scalding hot water run over me until I don't have any tears left.
Randi Cooley Wilson
#51. He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.
Randi Hutter Epstein
#52. I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.
James Randi
#53. I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.
James Randi
#54. Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
James Randi
#55. Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'
James Randi
#56. Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
Randi Pink
#57. 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
#58. It's easy for you to speak of love when you've built walls high enough around your heart that you forget what true love is. Sacrifice. Shelter. Loyalty.
Randi Cooley Wilson
#59. May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.
Randi Zuckerberg
#60. People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
James Randi
#61. Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.
James Randi
#62. Feeling better is not actually being better.
James Randi
#64. I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning to the moldies." - Cher
Randi Reisfeld
#65. No amount of belief makes something a fact.
James Randi
#66. Vote like your nation's survival depends on it ... because it does.
Randi Rhodes
#67. There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
James Randi
#68. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.
Randi Zuckerberg
#69. 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
#72. One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.
James Randi
#73. No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.
James Randi
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