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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.
I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.