A Quote by François Marie Arouet Voltaire on certainty

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Source: J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

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