The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a….

The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent….

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms..

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation co….

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motion….

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation..

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings wh….

I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning t….

If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event (prises de l'événe….

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws..

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate….

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 re….

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness..

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration..

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense..

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis..

Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all..

I have no need for that hypothesis..

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous..

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….

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order..