4 Quotes & Sayings By James Randi

James Randi is a magician, escape artist, and author of the book Flim-Flam! The Truth About Unicorns. Randi was a professional magician in the 1950s and 60s who performed at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. He also became an expert in "con artistry" (the deceptive practice of deceiving others to get what you want), which he uses to expose phony psychics. For more than 30 years, he has done everything possible to expose the paranormal; he has written several books debunking psychics and channelers, including The Faith Healers (with Martin Gardner) and Flim-Flam! The Truth About Unicorns (with Joe Nickell) Read more

He has lectured widely throughout the world on his discoveries about deception, magic, and the paranormal.

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No amount of belief makes something a fact. James Randi
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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
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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