All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
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… - Pierre-Simon Laplace
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…
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
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