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Nice quotation

Wednesday 13th August 2008 13:34 in Religion | No comments

“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”

- Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827)

Or as Carl Sagan put it: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”.

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