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For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

— Teller

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

— Penn Jillette

Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

— Teller

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

— Teller

It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.

— Michael Carbonaro

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

— Susanna Clarke

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

— Mark Ryan

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

— Dar Williams

✗Opposing Perspectives

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

— David Copperfield

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

— Marco Tempest