An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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