Occupation: Mathematician Birth: March 23, 1749 Death: March 5, 1827
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….
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer..
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation so closely that t….
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….
Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là..
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God..
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….
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories..
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the worl….
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….
Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though..
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and….
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….
Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all..
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms..
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need….
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena ….