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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

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