Ernest Renan (1823-1892)
French historian

"No miracle has ever taken place under conditions which science can accept. Experience shows, without exception, that miracles occur only in times and in countries in which miracles are believed in, and in the presence of persons who are disposed to believe them."
-- The Life of Jesus (1863)

As quoted from www.positiveatheism.org


That is, after all, exactly what the spiritualists and occultists tell us. Believe in miracles and you will think that you see them happening. Absolutely spot on. Atheists concur.