A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
The market for nonsense is infinite.
Nature doesn't cheat - people do.
[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.
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.
We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.
I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.
Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.
It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community. . . and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.
To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.