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 endeavours to establish.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 10, Part 1
1748
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