Quotes by Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

[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.

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

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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.

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

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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.

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Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.

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Man follows only phantoms.

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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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Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

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Said about Napier’s logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

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Quotes by Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

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

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.

Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.

Man follows only phantoms.

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.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

Said about Napier’s logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

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