Randi Quotes & Sayings

What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something. — Randi Rhodes

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it. — James Randi

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify'). — Randi Minetor

I would put my million dollars up as well. — James Randi

We have such powerful technology at our fingertips. But we need to make sure our attachment to being online doesn't get in the way of our lives and relationships offline. We need to find balance between being connected to millions of people around the world and being present with the people we love, standing right next to us. It's complicated. Over — Randi Zuckerberg

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

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

Winning her heart again meant more than any championship. — Randi Everheart

It's suffocating - until I see you and can breathe. It's darkness - until your light breaks through. It's the lowest low - until you make me feel the highest high. It makes me want to walk through fire and fight for you. Save you and protect you. It allows me to feel you in my bones, in every crevice of my heart, and in every breath I take." Without — Randi Cooley Wilson

Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. — James Randi

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

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi

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. — 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

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. — James Randi

To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision. — 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

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

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

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning to the moldies." - Cher — Randi Reisfeld

We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged to attribute our prosperity and general success among nations, to that sort of action. In my opinion, hard work and dedication to logic and reason ought to be recognized as the reasons for our achievements, not appeals to a mythical friend-in-the-sky. We got where we are in spite of, not because of, those incantations. — James Randi

[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

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

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

Holy hotness," Randi whispered loudly. "They make this event look like a hot male model convention instead of a wedding. — J.S. Scott

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

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin. — 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

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. — James Randi

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

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. — Randi Zuckerberg

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. — James Randi

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi

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

Death is the ultimate disappointment — James Randi

No amount of belief makes something a fact. — James Randi

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

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.

Feeling better is not actually being better. — James Randi

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

I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue." - Unknown — Randi Cooley Wilson

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think. — James Randi

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

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. — James Randi

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything. — Randi Rhodes

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

Consider a lighthouse. It stands on the shore with its beckoning light, guiding ships safely into the harbor. The lighthouse can't uproot itself, wade out into the water, grab the ship by the stern and say, "Listen, you fool! If you stay on this path you may break up on the rocks!" No. The ship has some responsibility for its own destiny. It can choose to be guided by the lighthouse. Or, it can go its own way. The lighthouse is not responsible for the ship's decisions. All it can do is be the best lighthouse it knows how to be. — Randi Kreger

I think anonymity on the internet has to go away, — Randi Zuckerberg

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

Fight global warming! Be cool. — Randi Rhodes

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

He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now. — Randi Hutter Epstein

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. — James Randi

Magician James Randi has used this empirical approach when testing those claiming to see glowing auras around people's bodies:
Randi: Do you see an aura around my head?
Aura seer: Yes, indeed.
Randi: Can you still see the aura if I put this magazine in front of my face?
Aura seer: Of course.
Randi: Then if I were to step behind a wall barely taller than I am, you could determine my location from the aura visible above my
head, right?
Randi once told me that no aura seer has agreed to take this simple test. — David G. Myers

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. — Randi Pink

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

The market for nonsense is infinite. — James Randi

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

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten

Seances occur only in darkened rooms, where the ghostly visitors can be seen dimly at best. If we turn up the lights a little, so we have a chance to see what's going on, the spirits vanish. They're shy, we're told, and some of us believe it. In twentieth-century parapsychology laboratories, there is the 'observer effect': those described as gifted psychics find that their powers diminish markedly whenever sceptics arrive, and disappear altogether in the presence of a conjuror as skilled as James Randi. What they need is darkness and gullibility. — Carl Sagan

No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer. — James Randi

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. — James Randi

Here in the darkness of the night and in the light of the moon and stars, I vow this to you. There is nothing I will fight harder for than to love, shelter, and revere you, forever, with every fiber of my being. Nothing stronger exists than my love for you, Eve Marie Collins. I will protect you, always. — Randi Cooley Wilson

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand. — James Randi

Vote like your nation's survival depends on it ... because it does. — Randi Rhodes

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

Children who experience abuse also learn to deny pain and chaos or accept them as normal and proper. They learn that their feelings were wrong or didn't matter. They learn to focus on immediate survival - on not getting abused, and miss out on important developmental stages. As a result, they have problems developing their own identities. — Randi Kreger

Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility. — Randi Weingarten

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children. — Randi Weingarten

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

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. — James Randi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege. — Randi Rhodes

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

Nature doesn't cheat - people do. — James Randi

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world. — James Randi

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

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

If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win. — Randi Rhodes

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

I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world
the real world
around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control. I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, and I don't drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality
fuzz the edges of my reasoning powers
and I want to be as aware as I possibly can. That means giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting in some ways, but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real world, or as close as I can get to it. — James Randi

I'm not a religious man, but I do worship your ass. — Randi Black

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 evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments - particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world - and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments. — James Randi

I believe that earth-shattering love exists and when you find it, it will move your soul like nothing else. — Randi Cooley Wilson

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