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.

  • -- David Hume 大卫休姆

没有任何证据足以证明一个奇迹,除非证据是这样一种,它的谎言将比它努力证明的事实更神奇。

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First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.

首先,我们有来自士兵的宣誓证词,以及在我们工作人员面前的证词,这些证词都不是宣誓的,这些证词说,这些警报很少响起,它们在战后大多数情况下会响起,而且经常响起。

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

与其说我对证词的多样性感到震惊,不如说我对真理的多样性感到震惊。