Gods Are Children's Blankets That Get Carried

Science Is Best Defined As A Careful, Disciplined, Logical Search For Knowledge About Any And All Aspects Of The Universe, Obtained By Examination Of The Best Available Evidence And Always Subject To Correction And Improvement Upon Discovery Of Better Evidence. What's Left Is Magic. And It Doesn't Work.

There Was A Small Boy On Crutches. I Do Not Know His Name, And I Suspect I Never Will. But I Will Never Forget His Face, His Smile, His Sorrow. He Is One Of The Millions Robbed Of Hope And Dignity By Charlatans Discussed In This Book. Wherever And Whoever He Is, I Apologize To Him For Not Having Been Able To Protect Him From Such An Experience. I Humbly Dedicate This Book To Him And To The Many Others Who Have Suffered Because The Rest Of Us Began Caring Too Late.

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.

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.

[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.