Top 23 Pierre-Simon Laplace Quotes

#1. Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

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

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#3. 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 of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.

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#4. "Read Euler: he is our master in everything."

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#5. Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

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#6. To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

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

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

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#9. The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

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#10. His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe
that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.

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#13. 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 sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.

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#14. Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

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#15. Man follows only phantoms.

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#16. 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 its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws.

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#17. Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

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#18. The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

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#19. Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

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#20. ...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.

{On the benefit of John Napier's logarithms.}

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

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#22. Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

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#23. Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

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