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“A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Doe Body Would Be Earth Process Space Views Evidence Capacity Fairs Importance Accepted Separation Probability

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.”

Ifs Should May Doe Belief Events Depends Evidence Miracle Regard Incredibles Extremes Proof Command Sufficient Probability Credibility Improbable Sufficiency

Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.”

Modern Evidence Claims Relation Philosopher Probability Hypothesis

Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.”

Self Matter Passion Interest Involved Evidence Concerned Prejudice Witness Proportion Probability Self Interest Marvellous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”

Littles Faith Social Religious Emotional Depends Evidence Logic Psychological Factors Host Probability Religious Faith

Author:Michael Shermer