"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies, than by a thousand arguments."
C. P. SCOTT

"Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion . . . or you shall learn nothing."
T. H. HUXLEY

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
SHERLOCK HOLMES

"Abscence of proof is not proof of abscence."
ANONYMOUS

"The universe is not only stranger than we know, but it is stranger than we can know."
J.B.S. HALDANE

"As far as I know, an alien space craft did not crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. If the U.S. Air Force did recover any alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either, and I want to know."
BILL CLINTON

"I am convinced that U.F.O.s exist because I have seen one . . . It was big, it was very bright, it changed colours, and it was about the size of the moon. We watched it for about ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was."
JIMMY CARTER

"I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky."
JIMMY CARTER

During a White House screening of E.T. - "There are only about six people in this room who know how true this is."
RONALD REAGAN

"Ufology is a truly funny business. It cannot be all bunkum; yet some of its implications are so bizarre as to be almost beyond comprehension."
IVAN SANDERSON

When asked, "Do you believe people sometimes experience apparitions?" - "No one who examines the evidence can come to any other conclusion. Instead of disputing the facts, we must try and explain them."
HENRY HABBERLEY PRICE

"I think we are close to the day when this [spiritualism] shall be classified among the known natural forces."
CHARLES DODGSON

"The centre of consciousness which was in existence before death does not cease to be in existence after death and . . . the experience of this centre after death has the same kind of continuity with its experience before death as that of a man who sleeps for a while and wakes again."
W. R. MATTHEWS

"The fact remains that Rudi has been subjected to the most merciless triple control ever impressed upon a medium in this or any other country and has come through the ordeal with flying colours."
HARRY PRICE

"The fact that man has a psychological need to believe in an afterlife does not automatically mean that we do not survive death."
D. SCOTT REGO

". . . it lay dormant until the 1930s when it was discovered by a couple who own a hotel overlooking the lake."
FRED MCAULEY

"I felt frightened and excited as I neared the end of the tunnel, I felt peace without pain and free."
IRIS LEMOV

"My speciality is psychiatry, and I was convinced before that healing was no more than suggested or wishful thinking or charlatanism, but then I observed a healer bring about a physical change to a patient that I could not explain away."
DR. DANIEL BINOR

"I myself have never "cured" anyone, my part is simply that of a channel for the healing powers."
HARRY EDWARDS

"When a healer places his hands upon a patient, there is an immediate blending together of their auras."
GORDON TURNER

"I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"Religion is the opium of the people."
KARL MARX

I denounce "the proponents of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion" and "all of those who assert that the church may not use force."
POPE PIUS IX

"I admire Christ but not Christians."
GHANDI

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage."
DENNIS POTTER

"Jim Jones talks a lot about love, brotherhood and humanity and his faith and the power of religion, but never once did I hear him mention God."
LEO RYAN

"Undoubtedly we are dealing with an intelligence, or intelligences, of a high order in the circle makers."
ALICK BARTHOLOMEW

"A natural force could not create such intriguing patterns."
PAT DELGADO

"Some people believe these circles were formed by U.F.O.s. That is nothing but pie in the sky which is wasting a lot of people's time."
DR. TERENCE MEADEN

On Charles Berlitz: "If Berlitz were to report that a boat were red, the chance of it being some other colour is almost a certainty."
LARRY KUSCHE

"The ocean would fizz up and ships would lose bouyancy and sink in minutes."
JULIAN PEARCE

"It's really a mystery and if it's not a chemical reaction or spontaneous combustion, then I don't know what it can be."
FIRE CHIEF , CAPTAIN S.H. JOINER

"The hypothesis of such a mode of destruction of the human body is not only unsupported by any credible facts, but is wholly inconsistent with all that science has revealed."
DR. ALFRED SWAINE TAYLOR

"In all my 45 years experience of this kind of investigation I have never seen fires like this before."
PROFESSOR VITOLO NICOLO

"The whole experience, even after all these years, has left me completely unafraid of death."
DAVID TAYLOR

"But I was not dead, I consoled myself; my physical body was sleeping under the blankets, while I was apparently on my feet and as good as before."
WILLIAM GERHARDIE

"I think it's because the experience is so compelling, you're so convinced in your own mind that you are out of the body , that you're just not interested in science."
DR. SUSAN BLACKMORE

"High above my body I floated wondering why so many doctors were around my bed."
IRIS LEMOV

"I no longer "believe" in survival after death - I "know" my consciousness will survive death because I have "experienced" my consciousness existing outside of my physical body."
DR. CHARLES TART

"When the wounds open I feel myself being drawn up onto the cross. I feel the nails being driven through my hands."
ETHEL CHAPMAN

"It was concluded that it is not a case of awakening the dead , but a semblance of death induced by some drug - some secret probably brought from Africa and handed down from generation to generation."
ZORA HURSTON

"I wasn't looking for a drug that could kill somebody. It only had to make someone "appear" to be dead."
WADE DAVIS

"In 1961 we dismissed the Mih Teh as pure myth. I now think we were wrong."
DESMOND DOIG

"The pattern of neanderthal sites which have been excavated across Soviet Asia accord very closely with the sighting of the Alma."
DR. MYRA SHACKLEY

"Many a man has been hanged on less evidence than there is for the Loch Ness monster."
G.K. CHESTERTON

"The case of the Loch Ness monster is worthy of our consideration if only because it presents a striking example of mass hallucination."
E.G. BOULENGER

"We wouldn't have been here if we didn't have the suspicion that there is something very large in this loch."
DR. ROBERT RINES

"There is a species of large aquatic creature in Loch Ness."
ACADEMY OF APPLIED SCIENCE

"The evidence for "something" in the loch is overwhelming; whether it is an animal new to science is another matter. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I believe in Nessie."
ARTHUR C. CLARKE

"Deep inside the great pyramid lies a dead end [in the southern shaft of the queen's chamber]. Rudolf Gantenbrink could explore beyond it, but no one will let him."
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

"The signs of intense precipitation - induced weathering visible to this day on the great monument [sphynx], and on the rock - hewn trench surrounding it, are consistent with an age of more than 12,000 years."
GRAHAM HANCOCK

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