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An axiom often repeated among CSI members is the quote "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/carlsagan.html|title=Interview With Carl Sagan|publisher=NOVA Online|access-date=August 26, 2017|archive-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403035048/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/carlsagan.html|url-status=live}}</ref> which Carl Sagan made famous and adapted from an earlier quote by Marcello Truzzi: "An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof".<ref>{{Cite journal | author=[[Marcello Truzzi]] | title=On the Extraordinary: An Attempt at Clarification | journal=[[Zetetic Scholar]] | volume=1 | issue=1 | page=11 | year=1978 | url=http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZS-Issues-PDFs/ZeteticScholarNo1.pdf | access-date=May 9, 2011 | archive-date=April 11, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411204900/http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZS-Issues-PDFs/ZeteticScholarNo1.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> (Truzzi in turn traced the idea back through the [[Pierre-Simon Laplace#Quotations|Principle of Laplace]] to the philosopher [[David Hume]].)<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/anomalistics/practices.htm
 |title       = On Some Unfair Practices towards Claims of the Paranormal
 |access-date  = 2007-05-01
 |author      = Marcello Truzzi
 |publisher   = Skeptical Investigations
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070428163349/http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/anomalistics/practices.htm
 |archive-date = 2007-04-28
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref>

According to CSI member Martin Gardner, CSI regularly puts into practice [[H. L. Mencken]]'s maxim "one [[horse-laugh]] is worth a thousand [[syllogism]]s."<ref>Quoted in Gardner, Martin (1981). ''Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus'', Prometheus Books, {{ISBN|0-87975-144-4}}, pp. vii, xvi.</ref>