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 to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
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.
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. - Pierre-Simon Laplace
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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