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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.”
    ― Pierre Laplace
    tags: astronomy, atheist, god, humor, mathematics, napoleon, science
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.”
    ― Pierre Simon De Laplace
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
    tags: admiration, compliment, euler, leonhard-euler, master, mathematician, praise, science, scientists
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
    ― Pierre Simon de Laplace
    tags: analysis, astronomy, certainty, comprehension, data, determinism, eyes, formula, free-will, human-mind, intelligence, lack-of-free-will, mind, motion, naturalism, nature, omniscience, past, perfection, physics, present, science, space, time, universe
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'

    Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
    tags: astronomy, atheism, humor, napoleon, napoleon-bonaparte, napoleon-the-great, naturalism, science, universe
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. (Man follows only phantoms.)

    {His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan.}”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
    tags: augustus-de-morgan, de-morgan, last-words, phantoms
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
    tags: achievement, antiquity, apollonius, apollonius-of-tyana, appreciation, archimedes, arithmetic, genius, grandeur, india, inventions, math, mathematics, merit, simplicity, symbols, useful
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.”
    ― Pierre Laplace
    tags: rationalism, scientific-method, skepticism
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace, Exposition du système du monde
    tags: damage, errors, happiness, ignorance, justice, maxim, nature, science, social-order, truth
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.”
    ― Pierre-Simon LaPlace
    tags: science
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “[Sire,] je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse."
    En répondant Napoléon qui lui demanda pourquoi sa théorie de l'univers ne indique pas Dieux.”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
    tags: religion, science, skepticism
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    Pierre-Simon Laplace
    “Podemos mirar el estado presente del universo como el efecto del pasado y la causa de su futuro. Se podría concebir un intelecto que en cualquier momento dado conociera todas las fuerzas que animan la naturaleza y las posiciones de los seres que la componen; si este intelecto fuera lo suficientemente vasto como para someter los datos a análisis, podría condensar en una simple fórmula el movimiento de los grandes cuerpos del universo y del átomo más ligero; para tal intelecto nada podría ser incierto y el futuro, así como el pasado, estarían frente a sus ojos.”
    ― Pierre-Simon Laplace
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