10 inspiring quotes by pierre-simon laplace
- What we know is not much. What we don’t know is enormous.
- All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
- His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.
- The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
- The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
- Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
- To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
- The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.
- I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe–that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.
- Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.
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