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[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's Popular Quotes

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

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

- 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.

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

- 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…

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

- Pierre-Simon Laplace