Magic Is The Sole Science Not Accepted

What The Eyes Sees, The Ear Hears, And The Mind Believes.

I Must Fling Myself Down And Writhe; I Must Strive With Every Piece Of Force I Possess; I Bruise And Batter Myself Against The Floor, The Walls; I Strain And Sob And Exhaust Myself, And Begin Again, And Exhaust Myself Again; But Do I Feel Pain? Never. How Can I Feel Pain? There Is No Place For It.

The Great Trouble With Magicians Is The Fact That They Believe When They Have Bought A Certain Trick Or Piece Of Apparatus, And Know The Method Of Procedure, That They Are Full-fledged Mystifiers.

But It Must Not Be Thought That I Say This Out Of Personal Experience: For In The Many Years That I Have Been Before The Public My Secret Methods Have Been Steadily Shielded By The Strict Integrity Of My Assistants, Most Of Whom Have Been With Me For Years.

I Always Have On My Mind The Thought That Next Year I Must Do Something Greater, Something More Wonderful.