An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof. — Marcello Truzzi, On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification, Zetetic Scholar, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 11, 1978 Carl Sagan popularized this as Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. However, Laplace writes: The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. Also, David Hume wrote in 1748: A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence, and No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
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